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Accessing Output on Disk and Tape for Printing: Considerations

These considerations apply to archived output that you want to retrieve for printing.

• For all modes, you have immediate access to the selected output if it meets any of these criteria:
  • Resides on disk
  • Has been temporarily loaded to disk
  • Resides on optical disk with page-level retrieval
  • Resides on tape and you are using EAS for tape and robotics.
• For JOB mode only, you have immediate access to the selected output if all of the reports for the job reside on the same tape and if you are using EAS.
• If your selected output resides only on tape and you are authorized for online tape mounts, the system operator is notified to mount the tape.

  Note: Only TSO and ISPF/SPF online allow tape mounting. For all TSO users (both native TSO and ISPF/SPF), whether you are authorized for online tape mounts is determined by how your system administrator has set up your TSO ACCOUNT command.

  Your terminal remains locked until the tape has been mounted and your output has been copied to disk.

• If your selected output resides on optical disk with file-level retrieval the output is loaded back to DASD.

  Note: Choose to disable all online tape mounts for CA View with the MOUNT=NO initialization parameter.

Note: A site can choose to disable all online tape mounts for CA View with the MOUNT=NO initialization parameter.