If they are all behind the VTS, then starting VMTAPE before RMSMASTR is ready will not do you any good. It cannot mount a tape until RMSMASTR is ready. Does the initialization take a long time?
Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Christy Brogan Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 2:52 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: RMSMASTR : ready or not Yes they are. Only takes a few hours for them to complain. :-) [cid:1__=88BBFDFDDFE40AC78f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com]"Schuh, Richard" ---07/28/2010 02:31:30 PM---Are all of your tapes behind RMSMASTR? We had a situation when RMSMASTR did not start but everything From: "Schuh, Richard" <rsc...@visa.com> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 07/28/2010 02:31 PM Subject: Re: RMSMASTR : ready or not Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> ________________________________ Are all of your tapes behind RMSMASTR? We had a situation when RMSMASTR did not start but everything else did. It was 3 days later that we got the first complaints about mounting tapes from the VTS, Regards, Richard Schuh ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Christy Brogan Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:33 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: RMSMASTR : ready or not Like Richard, we run VM:Tape. Here, it is NOT happy if it tries to start when RMSMASTR isn't ready. (Maybe we can chat Richard!) Basically what we do is to have a sleep in autolog2 to start up RMSMASTR, wait a few minutes and then do VMTAPE. It's not precise, but it works for us. :-) "Schuh, Richard" ---07/28/2010 01:24:33 PM---You could always loop while trying to mount a tape. When it is mounted, RMSMASTR is ready.:-) In rea From: "Schuh, Richard" <rsc...@visa.com> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 07/28/2010 01:24 PM Subject: Re: RMSMASTR : ready or not Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> ________________________________ You could always loop while trying to mount a tape. When it is mounted, RMSMASTR is ready.:-) In reality, the tape manager should be able to wait to open the interface until RMSMASTR is ready. Here, we have both a VTS, controlled by RMSMASTR, and 2 SL3000s, controlled by STKACS, and some tapes that are outside the silos. VMTAPE manages to initialize before RMSMASTR is ready and is quite happy adding the VTS to its stable when it is ready. If you really need to insure that RMSMASTR is running, you need an Observer or a Secuser of it that looks for the message FSMSMS3203I RMSMASTR is running. Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alain Benveniste > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:40 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: RMSMASTR : ready or not > > Looking back to my autolog2 profile, I found not much pretty > to xautolog rmsmastr and sleep 30 sec to xautolog products > they require tape mounts. > Rather than that I thought to trap a message that says in > substance "rmsmastr is ready, the tapes drives are there...". > Or "rmsmastr did not found a drive to initialize library ABC123...". > > What could I test to be sure of its good initialization ? > > > Alain > >
