RE: Unload Tape from CL Pgm?

True, and I have used that in the past.  Kinda forgot about it in my
rush to respond. :)

Still, DSPTAP is what I usually wind up using.  I usually want a SPLF of
the tape contents in addition to the eject.  For tracking the contents
of a tape (we don't have BRMS), that can be handy.  It could also be
valuable if the problem Mike is having is tape-related.  In fact, I
might add the DATA(*SAVRST) for a more complete dump of the tape's
contents.

John A. Jones
Americas Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:54 AM
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John,

CHKTAP's much faster than DSPTAP in just chucking the sucker out of the
drive.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com


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When I need to eject a tape from a command line or in a CL, I usually
use:

DSPTAP DEV(TAPxx) OUTPUT(*PRINT) ENDOPT(*UNLOAD)
MONMSG CPF0000 

John A. Jones
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Naughton [mailto:michael_naughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Unload Tape from CL Pgm?

Hi Everyone,

I thought I had seen a discussion of this a while back, but I've
searched the archives and come up with nothing. We've got a batch job
that does various things and then copies some files from a tape.

The CPYF command is set to unload the tape when it's done, but if the
job runs into a problem before it gets there the tape never unloads. I'd
like to put in an error handler that will abort the job and unload the
tape, but I don't see a CL command that does that. I tried RMVTAPCTG,
but that seems to apply to media library devices, which we don't have.
All I want to do is what the CPYF command does with the *UNLOAD option.

Any suggestions as to what I might try?  Thanks very much,

Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
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