I have been able to get access to our new 3592-E05 tape drives and want to
>begin functional testing. I will not be testing them as ENCRYPTING tape
>drives due to non-technical issues. But we want to try mounting a tape and
>running DDR to see if we can at least write and read the tapes. I have
>RMSMASTR configured to know about this new library and can get RMSMASTR to
>give me an inventory of the complete library. We have several tapes inserted
>but all are in 'INSERT' category. My z/OS co-worker has not been able to
>find an appropriate category value for these new tapes. I do not remember
>what the  hex value was for our other 3590 (20GB) tapes, but I have a nice
>'SCRATCH4' category for them. I would like a similar 'SCRATCHx' category
>for these 3592 tapes. We are at z/VM 5.3 service level 0701.
>

There are several VM SCRATCHx categories to choose from, or are you
looking for a different z/OS scratch category?

Best Regards,
Les Geer
IBM z/VM and Linux Development

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