Re: DSS RESTORE with SMS Managed 3584 Library - How??

[John McKown]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Roger Lowe  wrote:

> Hi,
>We have an SMS Managed 3584 Tape Library and would now like to use
> DFDSS RESTORE on our One Pack system to restore some dasd volumes from our
> weekly backup tapes as a recovery exercise.
> I have managed to vary online one of the drives to our one pack system and
> then used the web gui on the TS3500 to move the tape I require into the
> drive that is online to our one pack system - all seems to be good so far.
> However, when I run the batch DFDSS RESTORE job, I get the following
> message "IEF343I VOLRSTJB RESTORE TAPE - REQUEST FAILED - NOT ENOUGH
> NON-SYSTEM MANAGED VOLUMES ELIGIBLE"
> .
> As this is a one pack system, there isnt a valid SMS environment but
> somehow zOS knows that either the drive and/or the tape volume is under SMS
> management
> .
> Does anyone have any idea as to how to resolve this?
> .
> I did find  the following thread - https://groups.google.com/
> forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/mnyNGm6GzEg but it is referring more
> to the standalone DSS services
> .
> Thanks, Roger
>
>
​How are the tape drive addresses defined to your one pack system? If they
are defined as being controlled by a library, then you need to have the
TCDB (SYS1.VOLCAT.VGENERAL) initialized and SMS running. If you want to run
the tape library "manually", then you need to define it to your one pack
system as just a plan tape drive of the appropriate type and not as a
LIBRARY.​



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DSS RESTORE with SMS Managed 3584 Library - How??

[Roger Lowe]

Hi,
   We have an SMS Managed 3584 Tape Library and would now like to use DFDSS 
RESTORE on our One Pack system to restore some dasd volumes from our weekly 
backup tapes as a recovery exercise.
I have managed to vary online one of the drives to our one pack system and then 
used the web gui on the TS3500 to move the tape I require into the drive that 
is online to our one pack system - all seems to be good so far. 
However, when I run the batch DFDSS RESTORE job, I get the following message 
"IEF343I VOLRSTJB RESTORE TAPE - REQUEST FAILED - NOT ENOUGH NON-SYSTEM MANAGED 
VOLUMES ELIGIBLE"
.
As this is a one pack system, there isnt a valid SMS environment but somehow 
zOS knows that either the drive and/or the tape volume is under SMS management
.
Does anyone have any idea as to how to resolve this?
.
I did find  the following thread - 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/mnyNGm6GzEg but 
it is referring more to the standalone DSS services
.
Thanks, Roger

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