On Sunday, 05/14/2006 at 09:22 AST, "Imler, Steven J"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm ... yes, that's what I would have suspected ... like QUERY DASD
> DETAILS.
>
> q tape details e00
> TAPE 0E00 SEQUENCE NUMBER 10568 LIBPORT 1
> Ready; T=0.01/0.01 09:12:16
>
> Thinking back, I guess I never simply tried the command ... I was more
> distressed by the fact that I could not find the correct syntax via HELP
> (could IBM have forgotten to update the QUERY TAPES Help in the GA
> release?):
Yes, IBM could have forgotten. And did. It was added via an APAR
(VM63812) and we failed to add the helpfile (which we've already heard of
a few times). Because the information is very specialized we don't plan
to add the help file, but you can find the updates in the APAR closing
data. To wit:
.-ACTive--------------------.
>>--Query--TApes--+---------------------------+------------><
|-ALL-----------------------|
|-ATTach--.--------.--------|
| '-userid-' |
|-BOXed---------------------|
| | <---------------< |
| |-DETails--.-rdev--------.--|
| | '-rdev1-rdev2-' |
|-FREe----------------------|
|-OFFline-------------------|
|-QUIesced------------------|
'-SYStem--------------------'
...
DETAILS
displays detailed information about real tapes.
rdev
rdev1-rdev2
is the real device number (rdev), a range of real device
numbers (rdev1-rdev2), or some combination of those items.
For tapes attached to a library, the following information
is returned on the response:
o Library Identifier (sequence number)
o Logical Device Group Identifier (libport)
For tapes not attached to a library, the information is
not relevant and is returned as a string of dashes ("-").
...
Response 8:
If you enter a QUERY TAPES DETAILS <rdev(s)> command, and the
tape drive is not a part of the library, the response will be
similar to the following:
q tapes details 4499
16:06:22 TAPE 4499 SEQUENCE NUMBER ----- LIBPORT -
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:06:22
For a device that is a part of a library, the output will be
similar to the following:
q tapes details 4300
20:04:04 TAPE 4300 SEQUENCE NUMBER 00103 LIBPORT 1
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 20:04:04
*** EOF ***
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
