Re: Moving Tape drive between partitions on old 520 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Moving Tape drive between partitions on old 520
From: PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:07:03 -0500
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There's information about running HMC commands from the System i. It includes 2 example programs: FINDTAPE and MOVETAPE.

http://www.dbg400.net/foswiki/bin/view/DBG400/RunningHMCCommands

We experimented with it back in 2014... so the rules may have changed. We stopped worrying about it when we had our tape drives configured so they were accesible from any LPAR.

--Paul E Musselman

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