Re: Image catalog - always ready

[Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>]

You might also try changing the device description to "Unload device at
vary off  . . . . :   *NO ".  That might take care of the issue, and was
new to me when we came to 7.1 from v5r4.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Maybe because I could share the image catalog between virtual devices, I
> have the following in my save job;
>
> ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(BACKUP) FROMFILE(*new) +
>              TOFILE('SaveName.bin') +
>              IMGCLGIDX(1) IMGSIZ(999) TEXT(*GEN) +
>              ALCSTG(*IMGSIZ) VOLNAM(SaveYYMM) +
>              NEWOWNID(OwnerName)
>
> LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(BACKUP) DEV(TAPVRT01) WRTPTC(*NONE)
>
> SAV        DEV('/qsys.lib/tapvrt01.devd') +
>              OBJ(('/MyFolder/SubDirectory/2013/10')) +
>              OUTPUT(*print) LABEL(WhatIWantHere)
>
>  LODIMGCLG  IMGCLG(BACKUP) OPTION(*UNLOAD) DEV(TAPVRT01) +
>              WRTPTC(*NONE)
>
> RMVIMGCLGE IMGCLG(Backup) IMGCLGIDX(1)
>
> This way I know that the virtual device is only allocated to the image
> catalog when I'm ready to do a save.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I swear the last time I looked at the virtual tape image catalog I
> > created,
> > it was loaded and ready.  That was several weeks ago.  I looked at it
> > today
> > and it was not ready, so I had to do a LODIMGCLG.
> >
> > Does an IPL make it not ready?  I did an IPL to apply fixes last Friday
> > night.
> >
> > If an IPL resets image catalogs to not ready, is there a way to tell an
> > image catalog to always go to ready state?  Do I need to use the startup
> > program to do this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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> > Jeff Crosby
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