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Workspace z/TPF Product Family
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 13, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

ZTPLF allow assignment category

This eases the removal of numerous local mods we have regarding management of VTS tape categories.

ZTPLF FILL and ZTPLF LOAD commands require a tape category to obtain a tape (in this case scratch tapes).  I would these commands to optionally accept a TO parameter, where theTO parameter designates the category the tape volume will be assigned.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 14, 2024
    From the IBM z/TPF lab: The tape library user exits, coru.asm, can be used to assign the tape category.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 5, 2024
    From the IBM z/TPF lab: have the changes you made to the tape library user exits, coru.asm, to assign the tape category been successful? If so, we'd like to close this idea. Thank you.

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