You're dealing with Operators - many of who's mission in life is to make the life of sysprogs miserable.
A trace might be in order, with the console started and spooled to your ID. Too bad REXX never inherited the EXEC2 capability to trace to a file instead of the console. From "HELP EXEC2", "&TRACE" subject: &TRACE ALL &COMMAND EXECIO 1 DISKW INFO SCRIPT A (STRING If you are crafty, you might be able to trace without anyone being the wiser through careful use of 'CP SPOOL CONSOLE NOTERM' - but test carefully because you could keep the operator from seeing messages to which they need to respond. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. "Nick Laflamme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> 03/16/2006 03:46 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject SPXTape & standard labels? In an attempt to bullet-proof my system from Yet Another Mistake Operators Make, I used TAPE WVOL1 to put standard labels on the seven cartridges we use for nightly SPXTAPE dumps and changed how our DUMPNSS SVM invokes our home-grown TMS so it now asks the TMS to verify the label on the tape before the drive is attached to the SVM. I also ran manual tests in which I did SPXTAPE dumps to each of the seven tapes after labelling them, rewound them, and made sure that TAPE DVOL1 still showed a tape label. It seemed to work as I expected. Now I find that after a week of this, mounts of these seven volumes are failing because there's not standard label on these tapes. Is what I'm trying supposed to work? Is there something I might be doing to cause SPXTAPE to disregard an existing label and overwrite it? z/VM 4.4, service level 0501, and 3590 B11s, if it matters. Thanks, Nick The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited.
