Most of the shops I've worked in used AlphaNumeric Tape volsers Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184
If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: curious: volsers < 6 non-blank chars & non-numeric tape Non-numeric volsers with CA-1 from the beginning when they bought it from Uccel. Can't say why because it was before my time. I did install it once before they made it easier. The volser translation exits were minor compared to the zapping in the intercepts :) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 10:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: curious: volsers < 6 non-blank chars & non-numeric tape > > There is a thread over on TSO-REXX about splitting up a "string" into "volume > serials". This has occasioned two questions to me. > > 1) Has anybody ever had a VOLSER which was not exactly 6 non-blank > characters for a regularly used volume? Especially any trailing blanks? > > 2) Has any commercial shop ever used non-numeric tape volume serials for > normal in-house tapes? If so, why? I ask because, at least historically, > CA-1's > support of non-number tape serials was "difficult" (needed some sort of > mapping exit as I recall). > > Just curious. > > -- > There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! > Genghis Khan > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
