*** cross posted to VM and VSE list ***
Hi listers,
one of my customers has a 3584 library with 3592 drives. He has ordered
the zVSE 4 on 3592 tapes and got cartridges without barcode label. Now
he has a problem to insert the cartridges into the library because of
the following fact which I have read in the TS3500 redbook.
Unlabeled cartridges and cartridges with unreadable external VOLSER
labels are not
supported by the 3953 Tape System. Even though the TS3500 Tape Library
supports
unlabeled or unreadable external labels for Open Systems hosts, this
does not apply to
System z attachment.
As he has no other tape system he asked me now how to get the cartridges
into the library. Has anybody of you solved such a situation before? Is
it perhaps possible to mount the tape manually on the drive?
Any hints are welcome, thanks in advance.
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kind regards
Franz Josef Pohlen
