TS7700 wont read a tape in scratch category, I don't know about Control-M, but in CA1 there is a utility called CTSSYNC to "protect" a scratch tape by altering the cat code back to non-scratch.
On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 at 20:14, Gadi Ben-Avi <gad...@malam.com> wrote: > When I did that, I got these messages: > IGD330I ERROR OCCURRED DURING CBRXLCS PROCESSING- > FOR DATA SET > VOLUME REQUESTED BY SPECIFIC VOLUME SERIAL IS A SCRATCH VOLUME > THE FAILING VOLSER IS P18488 > IGD306I UNEXPECTED ERROR DURING ?CBRXLCS PROCESSING > RETURN CODE 8 REASON CODE 51 > > Gadi > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf > Of Doug Fuerst > Sent: יום ד 07 פברואר 2024 14:05 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Reading a scratch tape > > [You don't often get email from d...@bkassociates.net. Learn why this is > important at https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > > Yes. Just use a VOL=SER reference for the tape, and refer to the file by > DSN. > My guess is most of us has hit this issue, and it really is not that > difficult. I've done it many times. > > Doug Fuerst > d...@bkassociates.net > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From "Gadi Ben-Avi" <gad...@malam.com> > To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date 2/7/2024 6:45:39 AM > Subject Reading a scratch tape > > >Hi, > >We've been asked to attempt to read a file from a scratched tape. > > > >We use Control-M/Tape as our tape management system. > >The tapes are virtual 3490's stored on a TS7770. > >The tape has many files, but we only need once specific one. > >If it matters, the file is the output of DB/2 backup. > > > >Is this possible? > > > >Thanks > > > >Gadi > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
