Shared access to drives.

A client can allocate a drive in SHARED_ACCESS mode. This allows multiple Clients to access the drive.

The drivestatus command now has new key words EXUP and

SHARED_ACCESS.

Enter EXUP as a key word for the clientname to show all drives which are allocated in EXUP mode.

Enter SHARED_ACCESS as a key word for the clientname to show all drives which are allocated in the SHARED_ACCESS mode

New Features in Version 3.02

The following is a list of new features in Version 3.02 DAS.

Up- and Down compatibility of DAS to ACI:

This means that ACI can now run with an older version of the DAS Server. This is not possible with version of ACI < 3.02. In order for ACI 3.02 to talk with DAS 3.x, no special options need to be considered. However, for ACI 3.02 to talk with DAS 1.3x, the environment variable ‘SERVERVERSION‘ needs to be set to ‘1.3‘ on the system.

Extended mode

An extended mode is implemented, in addition to basis and complete. In this mode you can use the following commands:

drive status,

drive status2,

drive status3

volser status

query version

query volsrange

get volser to side

get volser to drive

view

keep

mount

In order to get this mode to follow, configure the statement of the configuration file of DAS in the client:

requests = extended,

Version 3.10E DAS Release Notes

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21 Dec 2001

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