z/OS MVS Setting Up a Sysplex
Previous topic | Next topic | Contents | Contact z/OS | Library | PDF


Recommendations for automatic tape switching

z/OS MVS Setting Up a Sysplex
SA23-1399-00

IBM® recommends the following when setting up automatic tape switching:
  • For ease of tape device management, IBM recommends that you use the same device number on all systems to represent an automatically switchable device. If an automatically switchable device is a 3480 or a 3490 without the ‘Read Configuration Data Capable’ function, you must use the same device number.
  • To support automatic tape switching, you also need to update the GRSRNLxx member of parmlib by adding the following system inclusion RNL:
    RNLDEF RNL(INCL) TYPE(GENERIC) QNAME(SYSZVOLS)

    This specification prevents a system from holding a tape device while it waits for a mount of a volume that is in use by another system in the sysplex.

Go to the previous page




Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2014