I remember doing pretty much what you are attempting to do just a couple of years ago.
The old brain cells fail me but I do remember it worked and I had to use the 'HALT' command. I think I did a DETACH rdev (LEAVE and an ATTACHn not GIVE, but I don't know why. It may have been something with the sequence...
I'll look for the code, but to be honest, I don't think I have it anymore.
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Brian Nielsen
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: GIVE command on a tape drive with intervention required
I'm trying to use PROP to do some tape EOV processing for DDR. I
intercept the HCPERP2233I TAPE NOT READY message generated when DDR
reaches EOV and PROP starts my action routine. So far, so good.
What I want to do is use the GIVE command to transfer the the real tape
drive from the service machine that's running the DDR to another userid so
that I can update the message display on the 3590 tape drive operator
panel. However, the GIVE command gets message HCPGIV1120E because the
GIVE command does not complete in a reasonable amount of time. Querying
the tape drive shows there is intervention required on the tape drive (as
expected). Doing a HALT to the real device doesn't help.
I think I'm at a dead end with this approach, but maybe someone knows a
way around this.
Brian Nielsen
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