Re: GO SAVE 21/22 for MLB devices

You CAN also create your own program. If you are on the SAVE menu and key in 21 then press HELP you will see the commands that a SAVE 21 runs. You can copy those to a CLP and add to it a tape volume name. If your backup fits on just one tape this is quite simple. If your backup requires multiple volumes then you need to handle that somehow.

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On 3/29/2013 5:44 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

Yup, it's called BRMS. Non IBM alternatives, Robot/Save and LXI tape
management systems

If your MLB is in sequential mode, then use the TAPxx device rather than
the TAPMLBxx device and you will achieve what you are after. At that
point you've turned the Tape Library into an over glorified auto loader.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On 3/29/13 3:30 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:

Is there an alternative to the GO SAVE options 21/22 that understands Tape MLBs? To use an MLB, you need to specify the MLB name, the drive name, and the tape name. Then you need to VRYCFG the MLB and allocate the resource name (ie the tape device).

The individual save commands must use the MLB name for the device, and work a lot nicer if you can specify the tape name (ie the barcode label name).

The options under 21/22 don't allow this. We've been playing games with tape categories and using the *MOUNTED option for the tape. It would be -very- nice if there were an official version of 21/22 that knew about MLBs!

Or have I missed something??

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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