What does the ACF SHOW ACTIVE TAPE-EOV intercept setting indicate in ACF2 and under what circumstances does this interface get set?

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - DB2 Option
• ACF2 for zVM
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC
• PanApt
• PanAudit

Issue/Introduction

What does the ACF SHOW ACTIVE TAPE-EOV intercept setting indicate in ACF2 and under what circumstances does this interface get set?

 

Environment

Release: ACF2..001AO-15-ACF2
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Resolution

The TSO, ACF, SHOW ACTIVE command displays the CA ACF2 for z/OS intercepts that have received control (denoted by YES) initially(after an IPL) intercepts will display NO(ie.TAPE-EOV(NO)), once the intercept is triggered YES will be displayed(ie. TAPE-EOV(YES).

The TAPE-EOV intercept is only triggered when a dataset spans more than one tape volume. The reason for the intercept is to protect the second and subsequent volumes. Virtual tape systems may never invoke this function.