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<[log in to unmask]>, Craig 
Lalley <[log in to unmask]> writing at 
21:34:43 in his/her local time opines:-
>you need to wait for the tape to be online.
>DEVCTRL.MPEXL.TELESUP 7;load=online
>is not going to happen right away.
>Do  PAUSE 60
>Should be enough.
>-Craig

Not knowing of the handy utilities Ernie quotes (and we haven't even got 
a UTIL.SYS with a copy of what may or may not be a program by the same 
name in our BRADMARK account) I solved this issue by brute force a while 
back  for our SLT backups so they acted like Orbit Backup+ ones and 
could have an autoreply.

The job you want to reply to streams our AUTOREPJ job, which sits and 
issues a RECALL every little while until it finds a pending request from 
the job that streamed it (and no other job) which it replies 'Y' to.

It then idles until its parent job terminates, but ready to make another 
REPLY if so requested, and then terminates itself (as it does if this 
happens with no request ever having been forthcoming in the first 
place).

So it will handle one job on several tape drives, or several copies can 
handle multiple jobs on multiple tape drives without ever interfering 
with one another, or needing to know in advance which tape drive is to 
be used for what.

It's pretty straight CI, though there is one mpex command in there - to 
detect when the parent jobstream has gone - that I'm sure could be done 
in the CI if anyone wanted it pure CI.

I can post it if anyone is interested, or for Ernie if Craig's fix 
doesn't work for any reason...

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