On Apr 2, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
What century is this?
21st
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 is no easy way for the system to know what is real and what is
virtual.
But perhaps the emulation is too faithful; the OS may be unable
(by design) to distinguish a virtual tape from physical. But there
are still esoteric device names.
Doesn't work that was since day 1.
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.
No TSO user typically has mount authority. We gave it out to a
limited number of sysprogs when we had an MSS (3850). There was a way
to get around it IIRC but its been years and I have forgotten. Even
so an occasional sysprog would accidentally mount a round tape. The
rule was that if you needed a tape you were to hand the reel to the
operator yourself and submit a Job.
Ed
-- gil
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