Bill Colwell writes:

> In <bitnet.adsm-l%9512051706.AA0180@MGICSMTP>, Mary_Vollmer AT mgic DOT com 
> (Mary Vollm
> er) writes:
> >We are using tape collocation by node and would like to be
> > able to produce a listing showing which tapes belong to each
> >node.  The only way I know to do this is to issue a
> >"QUERY CONTENT volser C=1" .  We are running ADSM 1.11
> > on MVS and this processes uses alot of CPU cycles and our
> >tape pool contains about 800 tapes.  Does anyone know of a
> >better way?  Thanks.
>
> I don't know of a better way.  This is the only way that I can think
> of.  You are right, it does take a lot of cpu time.  It doesn't get any
> better in version 2.
>
> I submitted a requirement at GUIDE this past summer to ask for a query
> which will report all the volumes used by a node.  I think it was
> 'recognized' by IBM (they think it is a good idea, but haven't committed
> to implementing it yet.)

I've heard of this requirement many times, in one form or another, and I'm
wondering: why this is so desireable?

Thanks,

Andy Raibeck
Connecticut Mutual
203-987-3521