Re: Assigning ontape output to disk

> How do you tell the online engine to direct archives written > with ontape to a disk file? Modifications through onmonitor > or the onconfig file still leave the engine demanding tape behavior: > mount messages, etc. Once you create an empty file with correct permissions on the file system; you may change your archive tape parameters via onmonitor. Ontape will still ask to mount the tape (which is already mounted in this case). You simply need to press enter and your empty file will start to fill. Also it will ask to change the tape when your tape size value is smaller than your archive size. In this case you need to copy the file and then empty it. But if you want these operations to happen automatically; you may write an input file which you would redirect it into ontape when executing (preferably within a script to handle complicated actions) or deal with Onarchive. Hope this helps. Alp K. Tasdemir