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10.4 Using a 4mm tape drive
We ran the same job we used for FakeTape (“FLEX-ES FakeTape on z/OS” on page 147)
using a 4mm drive in our xSeries EFS system. Before submitting the job, we used this
command in the
flexes> window:
flexes> mount 560 /dev/sg0
This assigns the 4mm drive to the FLEX-ES resource at S/390 address 560. (This address is
appropriate in the AD system, where it is generated as a 3480 tape drive. /dev/sg0 was the
correct name for our 4mm drive, but your generic tape names may be different.) When the job
was submitted, we received a mount request on the z/OS console, inserted a scratch 4mm
tape, went ...