On Fri, 18 May 2018 22:15:54 -0400, zMan wrote:

>I have to ask: "Change Label In Place" -- as opposed to what? Removing the
>platter and sending it back to IBM to have the label changed?
> 
When I first heard it I assumed it referred to repairing a damaged magnetic tape
by clipping off a couple meters with scissors and affixing a new reflective 
sticker.
That was an operation common enough that IT shops stocked those stickers.

That coud generalize to DASD, then VSE made the widespread vernacular a
documented command.

-- gil

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