Turns out that the pause was the missing part.
Thanks to all who threw in their 2 cents.
The sad part is that this is helping us migrate off one of our two HP3k computers. Turn-off date for this particular box is April 13...
Ernie
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roy Brown
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Configuring device 7 for autoreply
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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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