Yes unloads work, but when we have a lot of them it's quicker to vary the drives offline and back on. We tried running a job using retain and were unable to reproduce this.
John Benik -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Orphan Tape mounts On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:47:29 -0600, John Benik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have been seeing this a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody has >seen this before. It seems to cause an issue especially when doing >reclaims. Most jobs run and unload the drive, and we are not sure what >would be causing this, or how we can even duplicate it to see what would >cause it. > >1851 3490 V32300 PRIV/REMOV > >Usually what we have to do is vary the drive offline and back online to >clear this. So what we've been doing is varying the range offline and >back online because there have been so many of them. All of our efforts >to duplicate this have failed. > Doesn't an MVS unload command work: U CUUA This can happen when a job step uses a tape with RETAIN or PASS and then the tape does not get used again in a subsequent step. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - GITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
