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
