Function
Connects a magnetic peripheral on-line to an object program. It can be used instead of ONLINE when another magnetic tape with the same name as the one to be ONLINEd may already be loaded or where the tape serial number is not known.
Format
ONLINEX magnetic tape peripheral name,magnetic tape description
As with the ONLINE command, the peripheral name maybe qualified by READ or WRITE in parenthese.
Forbidden contexts
NO CORE IMAGE
Execution
ONLINEX is a system macro. It first requests the serial number of the
unused tape of the name specified in the second parameter be means of
the command
QUESTION : GIVE TSN OF UNUSED MT NAMED %B
where %B is the magnetic tape description specified as the second
parameter of ONLINEX.
If the tape serial number cannot ge given, the operator should reply
with
ANSWER
user name,job name,CANT
in which case, the command
ONLINE
%A,%B
is issued, where %A is the magentic tape peripheral name
originally specified and %B is the magnetic tape description.
If the operator ANSWERs with
the tape serial number, then the command
ONLINE
%A,%C
is issued, where %A is as above and %C is the tape serial number
specified.
Error Messages
As for ONLINE magnetic tape peripherals