John, I believe that all you will need to do is physically eject the cartridges and then put them back in. The "trick" is that when you put the physical cartridges back in, you must specify (from the 3494 station) that the cartridges are being put back in as scratch stacking volumes. This is a different "insert" process then when you simply "insert" a cartridge and someone (a z/OS system or a distributed system) takes "ownership" of them. Instead, you are telling the 3494 that these are physical tapes for it to use itself as a "stacking" cartridge.
Russell Witt -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Relabelling a 3592 in an ATL Sorry, I know this is not directly mainframe related. But we have a problem that our tape librarian has dumped in our laps. We have an ATL with 3952 drives. We also have an VTS connected to this same ATL. Our backstore tapes are 3952s. This ATL is also used for our Distributed (Windows) systems. The tape librarian wants to relabel some "distributed" tapes to be VTS "backstore" tapes. First question. Are VTS backstore tapes internally labelled? If so, what type of label? Second question. What would be the easiest way to "insert" these tapes into the z/OS managed portion of the library so that I could appropriately label them? Has anybody done this? IBM's initial suggestion is to get the tapes together and send them back to our original supplier and ask them to do the relabelling for us. I like this solution. However, it costs money. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
