
General Requirements BIM-EPIC ACL Support
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BIM-EPIC ACL Support
General Requirements
BIM-EPIC provides support for Automatic Cartridge Loaders (ACL’s) for these vendors:
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IBM
• Memorex
• OPTI-TAPE - Barnard Systems Inc. (BSI)
•
STK
A large part of the BIM-EPIC definition and processing requirements are the same for all of
these ACL’s and are described in this section of the manual. Vendor-unique definition and
processing requirements are described in these sections:
• IBM ACL Support Page 5-60
• Memorex ACL Support Page 5-63
•
STK ACL Support Page 5-68
• OPTI-TAPE Support Page 5-73
ACL’s from more than one vendor can be in the same BIM-EPIC processing environment.
The appropriate vendor’s ACL support environment must be installed and successfully
configured before the ACL can be defined to BIM-EPIC.
The BIM-EPIC Resource Dataset (ERD File) must be defined (described in section "Defining
the BIM-EPIC Resource Dataset" on page 2-25).
For IBM, Memorex and STK ACL’s the BIM-EPIC Task Dispatcher (described in the section
"BIM-EPIC Dispatcher" on page 2-25 must be active before any SCRATCH/RETAIN
requests can be sent to the ACL, and before any EP ACL command can be issued. Using a
POWER PRELEASE command at an appropriate point in the VSE IPL process is one way to
ensure that this is always done. The Task Dispatcher is not required if OPTI-TAPE is the only
ACL being used.
When a tape dataset is closed, BIM-EPIC always unloads/demounts it from an ACL drive
unless BIM-EPIC’s “hold assignment at close” option is specified in the dataset’s TLBL (8 or
H) or DD statement (FREE=END).
Revolving tape datasets cannot be present in an ACL.
The following BIM-EPIC startup configuration options are required. There are some
additional unique-to-vendor options that are described in the appropriate vendor ACL support
section.
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ACLAUTI=YES|NO (or take the default)
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ACLLIB=lib.sublib
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ACLRECS=nn (or take the default)
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ACLTIME=nn (or take the default)
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