9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
10:45 a.m.
On 8/9/2015 12:36 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Good OS-es allowed an operator to mount tapes for his
next few jobs,
without paying attention to paper labels and have the OS automatically
locate and assign tapes to the proper job.
Can UNIX do that?
--Chuck
Seems dangerous to me: duplicate data set names on different tapes would
confuse it (plus, if the DSN is long, the entire DSN does not actually
appear in the tape label). I worked with OS/360 and MVS in my career
and we never did anything like that with it.
Certainly one could imagine writing a process in Unix (or most any OS,
for that matter) to do something like that where a separate process
managed the tape drives, and then processes could connect to it to ask
for tape data based on the label. I just can't imagine anyone WANTING
to do that.
JRJ