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Skip,
No problem, SMS-managed tape still does NOT have the same catalog requirement
that SMS-managed DASD has. So, having multiple un-cataloged tape data sets with
the same name is perfectly fine. No changes needed.
Russell WittCA 1 Architect
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From: Jesse 1 Robinson
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Subject: (External):Re: SMS for tape
With system-managed (SMStape), we SMS-manage the tape libraries and tape
volumes and we do not manage the datasets on the tape volume (we leave this up
to the tape management system and the application that owns the data). And
though we use an ICF catalog
With system-managed (SMStape), we SMS-manage the tape libraries and tape
volumes and we do not manage the datasets on the tape volume (we leave this up
to the tape management system and the application that owns the data). And
though we use an ICF catalog for our meta data (tape volume and
AFAIK, SMS managing tapes is much simpler than dasd.
The only thing SMS really does is to assign a DC, SC, MC and SG to a tape in
the ACS routines and these constructs are passed to the tape library, which
does its thing with them.
We don't have uncatalogued tapes, but I am quite sure they can
