9 Aug
2015
9 Aug
'15
11:27 a.m.
If you had a tape master file then typically that had the same dataset name on the master
in and out....
Dave
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Subject: Re: SCSI Tape to TAP utility
On 08/09/2015 10:45 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
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.
So you'd trust your job to a 9-5 operator who really didn't care what the
machine was doing to make tape assignments?
Wow. Good thing that tapes have write-enable rings.
--Chuck