Upon further testing.... When I issue the tar command from telnet, the tape drive becomes UNUSED as soon as the tar command completes.
When I issue the tar command from CMS using REXEC, the tape drive becomes UNUSED as soon as the tar command completes. However, when I issue the tar command from a VSE Batch job using REXEC, the drive remains IN-USE for a long period of time after the VSE job terminates. That is really unexpected. Now for some further research.... Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
