On Thursday, 09/13/2007 at 11:25 EDT, Daniel Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you who run z/OS under z/VM, how do you handle tape drives ? > > In a native LPAR sysplex, all z/OS systems have access to all the tape > drives. > > Is there a way to share a tape drive between z/OS systems running under z/VM ?
Use ATTACH with the MULTIUSER option. As long as your z/OS tape manager is using ASSIGN to assume ownership of the drive at tape mount time, all will work. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
