It's not really a joke ... To be clearer ... you want to issue a MIM GLOBAL VARY OFF so the drive is set OFFLINE on *every* system ... then a MIM GLOBAL VARY ON.
The act of VARY OFF/ON will reset the ASSIGN bit on whichever system is the offending one. This doesn't tell you which system was the culprit ... it's the "sledge hammer" approach to getting the problem corrected as quickly as possible. JR JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Who has the tape drive ASSIGNed? That's a joke, right? MIM thought the drive was free, or it would not hav= e assigned it to VMDEV2.
