There is no way for a user to allocate a tape as via JCL on MVS.
Typo. That should of course be "VM", not MVS.
Actually I meant "as on MVS" but its much the same
Typically, sites used to use the MSG command to ask the operator who would:-
1. Mount the tape = Hercules devinit command 2. Attach it to the requesting user, e.g. "ATT 580 CMSUSER 181" 3. Send a message back to say its done. "MSG CMSUSER YOUR TAPE IS READY"
Of course as you are both user and operator you can just mount the tape and attach it to your user-id.
You can unmount a tape attached to your user by "TAPE RUN"
Or "DETACH 181" from your userid.
Or "DETACH 181 (LEAVE" to not unload it.
These remove the drive from the user, "TAPR RUN" unmounts the tape but leaves the drive attached to the user. The op can then mount a new tape. Its all very different from MVS...
-- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories
