On 15/03/2014 4:49 AM, John McKown wrote:
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).
Yes, because management got thousands of tape labels printed for the new MVS system before the sysprogs heard about it. Delusions above their station in life, if you ask me... And yes, we had to maintain that irritating exit... :( --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
