Two wildly different thoughts: 1. Might it be possible to mount the offending tape manually depending of course on what's failed in the library? 2. DFSMShsm AUDIT MEDIACONTROLS once the tape has been transported to the main site. This probably involves less risk of bodily harm.
On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 03:40, fred glenlake <fred.glenl...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hello Listers, > > I have a small remote site that we are upgrading the physical tape library > to a virtual TS7700 library. All went well until the old library had a > serious hardware error. My leadership has decided not to spend the money > to repair the old failed library (of course now out of warranty and > maintenance). However, I still have one more ML2 tape worth of data to > migrate to the new library. > > If we bring the ML2 tape back to our main site would it be possible to > read the ML2 tape to extract the data off of it? The only way I can think > of is to also bring copies of all the CDS's and Journal from the remote > site, restore those CDS's (MCDS, BCDS, OCDS) and Journal. Then bring down > the "real" DFHSM and bring up the "Remote" DFHSM to be able to recall the > data off of the ML2 tape. > > Unfortunately running the "hsend list dsname both" commands on the ML2 > datasets shows No BCDS records so I cannot just recover the ML2 datasets > from BCDS copies. > > Any suggestions would be welcomed. > > Thanks, > > Fred G. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
