On 2 April 2015 at 14:55, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > What century is this? > > The default should be more granular: > o "Allowed" for virtual tapes. > o "Disallowed" for roller skate tapes. > o Somewhere in between for robotic mounted tapes.
There are (or were) mountable disks, too. They behave[d] just like tapes. > Anyway, the user shouldn't be left "stuck on the clock wondering why the > computer went dead," the mount message should be echoed to the user's > terminal (yes, even if the user is logged on to OMVS, and then to the right > session if there are several) so the user would know. The terminal user *does* get a message, with an amusingly documented "programmer response": IEC108I OPERATOR ACTION HAS BEEN REQUESTED FOR YOUR DATA SET Explanation Operator intervention is necessary before processing can continue on your data set. System action The system waits for the operator to respond. Programmer response A long wait may ensue before the operator responds. It's not the message the operator sees, but the user should be in little doubt about what's going on. Of course allowing ATTN to cancel the mount would've been nice. (IEC108D is also written in a couple of other cases, though they may all de facto be gone.) Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
