On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 06:14 Giliad Wilf < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:37:11 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Jake, > > > >your DD statemtnt looks wrong: > > > >Try: > > > >//SYSUT1 DD > >DSN=A,LABEL=(,BLP,EXPDT=98000),UNIT=VTAPE,VOL=SER=P098878,DISP=(OLD,PASS) > > > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 2:04 PM Jake Anderson <[email protected]> > >wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I am running this JCL to obtain information about a virtual tape. > >> > >> //JOBCARD > >> // STEP EXEC PGM=TAPEMAP > >> //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* > >> //SYSPRINT2 DD SYSOUT=* > >> //SYSUT1 DD > >> LABEL=(,BLP,EXPDT=98000),UNIT=VTAPE,VOL=SER=P098878,DISP=(OLD,PASS) > >> > >> The error I get is > >> > >> ** DEVICE TYPE WAS NOT SPECIFIED > >> ** ERROR DETECTED BY PARAMETER CONVERTER, PROCESSING ABORTED > >> > >> Is there anything missed out in my JCL as I have specified UNIT . > >> > >> Jake > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > > > > > >-- > >Wayne V. Bickerdike > > > Since label processing is being bypassed, DSN can be any syntactically > valid name, but why is volser 7-char long? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
