Specifying the device name

When you use the SAV command, you use a pathname to specify objects to be saved. The pathname consists of a sequence of directory names that are followed by the name of the object. You also use the pathname for the values of other parameters, such as the device (DEV) parameter. For example, on the SAVLIB command, you specify DEV(TAP01). To use device TAP01 on the SAV command, you specify:

DEV('/QSYS.LIB/TAP01.DEVD')

To use a save file name MYSAVF in library QGPL on the SAVF command, you specify:

DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/MYSAVF.FILE')

You may want to create symbolic links for devices that you specify with the SAV command to simplify keying and to reduce errors. For example, you can create a symbolic link for the media device description that is called either TAP01 or OPT01. If you wish to use symbolic links, it is recommended that you perform a one-time setup of symbolic links in the root directory. For each tape device on your server, type the following:

ADDLNK OBJ('/qsys.lib/media-device-name.devd') NEWLNK(media-device-name) +
       LNKTYPE(*SYMBOLIC) 

If the current directory is the root directory, then an example of the SAV command using the symbolic link would be the following:

SAV DEV(media-device-name) +
    OBJ(('/*') ('/QDLS' *OMIT) ('/QSYS.LIB' *OMIT))

All subsequent path names on the command would need to begin from the root directory.