Data erase on stacked backend tapes.

We have the need to erase any residual data on some stacked backend vsm tapes. I've heard you can do this with FATS/FATAR but wondered if there is any other method to do this? Everything else I have seen seems to require the tapes be added to your tape management system and even then there is

VMA Cookbook or Tape Mount Analyzer cookbook.

I'm wondering if there is any kind of a cookbook for volume mount analyzer or for a product called Tape Mount Analyzer? This year we are trying to make sure that data that goes to tape should go there and not on dasd. --

Re: Any RMM Training available?

If you find any training we would also be interested. John Benik -- 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

Channel Detected errors only 1 lpar, 1 job, 1 vsm

Alright this is a head scratcher at least for me... We have recently installed a VSM5 and also have some VSM4's in the mix. We have one job that runs that is continually getting channel detected errors every time it runs and the errors are only occurring on the VSM5. Below is a small

Re: VSM reporting.

Thanks, our STK sales person does not recommend EXPR. It is not a good fit for our environment and to put it lightly he stated he would rather lose the sale then to have an unsatisfied customer. So if there is anything else out there...

VSM reporting.

Does anybody have some good reporting for STK VSMs? We are using MXG and creating something, but I would like to get some along the lines almost like IBMs VTSSTATS. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: VSM(VT), Disaster Recovery, No Tapes

We also use STK VSM's and 9940b's on the backend. I've used VDR in the past and it does work extremely well, but it sounds like you are not going to have any other tape drives other then backend drives and virtual drives. So I'm not sure how VDR would help you. STK does have a feature with

Re: Using RMM in a large STK environment?

It isn't a question of what's common, we are just trying to make sure that either will do the job in a shop as large as ours. Just want to make the best choice for our environment. From the replies I've seen either one will do the job we need. Which brings me to my next question, as our

Using RMM in a large STK environment?

I'm trying to get an answer as to how many shops are using STK silos and have also implmented RMM? Currently we are a mixed shop and using both IBM and STK with our direction being all STK. We also have 2 tape management systems RMM and CA-1 with RMM being used on the largest systems, and

Re: Tape Backup issues.

Since I received no reply to my first note I thought I'd word it differently. The 15 to 1 ratio can be explained by normal tape I/O. It seems the bottle neck is at the Brocade directors. We dump the data into an edge and it hits the front end at 60 MBPS the network then compresses it and it

Tape Backup issues.

We do weekly full volume backups across a network to a remote location. We are currently seeing our ability to accomplish these backups within the current window almost impossible. We are trying many things and one is to increase the buffer credits. What we see when doing the full volume

RMM to CA-1 or CA-1 to RMM

Well, it seems we have two directions we can go with our tape management system. We have some systems that run CA-1 and some that run RMM. At first we stated that we wanted to go to CA-1. This seems to be what the majority of people use. My personnel opinion I like CA-1 much better, I

Trying to switch from 3590J to 3590K tapes.

We are attempting to switch from 3590J(MEDIA3) to 3590K(media4) tapes but HSM is issuing the messages below. We have ejected all the J media scratches and inserted enough of the K media to at least get through tonight. But it's critical that we figure this out before this weekend. CBR4195I

Master Start Pendings

Every morning we run a job that does an STK CDS backup. About 1/2 hour after the job starts we start seeing master start pendings on the volume which holds the primary CDS. Once the backup step starts about 45 minutes after the first start pending we then see a reserve on that volume while

Re: Master Start Pendings

The reserve that's done in the morning is usually fine, GRS is functioning as it should. It's also an expected situation. I'm not sure if converting to an enqueue would do anything for us, but please tell me any benefits. I will also see if we have other jobs running that are doing

Re: Master Start Pendings

That's already done. So only STK work will get the reserve?? That's a good thing to know. But then we have the master start pending issue... I'm looking into that right now. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Orphan Tape mounts

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

Re: ARC0103I when adding STK VSM to virtual tape esoteric.

That's what we will be doing, but since we are not converting this to STK for a while we were just trying to get all the esoterics in place. And we don't want to force JCL changes to the users. This brings me to my next question isn't there a way to only have tape units defined to the default

Orphan Tape mounts

to duplicate this have failed. John Benik -- 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

Use of EMC Virtual Tape solution.

are considering the EMC solution. John Benik -- 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

ARC0103I when adding STK VSM to virtual tape esoteric.

Currently most of our HSM work is going to an IBM virtual tape system. We are in the process of migrating off of IBM and going to STK. To get a jump on this we decided we would add the STK Virtual Tape drives to the Esoteric that's currently used by for the IBM VTS. When we did this HSM had

problems with multi volume, restore using FDR

are using BLP processing and everytime we tried to read the 2nd tape we got the same abend. I ended up spliting one job into 16 different jobs, because every time we restored one file, it tried to go to the second tape... Thanks John Benik

Re: problems with multi volume, restore using FDR

Thanks for your help I'll see if I can find any more information on this on Monday. It was very obvious that this was the first time this had ever gone multivolume. The tapes are created SL tapes so my thinking was that once the TMC was up and running on this system I could restore them as

Re: discrete profiles for tape protection.

I'm not sure if my question on this went out or not. Through many trials I was finally able to get a job to abend after writing virtual tapes. The only way I was able to do this however was to use a file that was on tape already and it was using the fat tape 200gb. So I'm not sure if the error

Re: discrete profiles for tape protection.

you were exactly right TPRACF(A). It sounds like the only way to avoid this is to not use Tapevol any longer, is there something else I should change the TPRACF(A) to? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Esoterics set in SMS we are very quick to make HCD changes.

' then set unit = 'tape90', but because it was only coded in a filter list then it had to be in the gen?? Thanks John Benik -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Kelly Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 9:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Esoterics set in SMS we are very quick to make HCD changes.

are using STK and the SMC SMS interface?? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Esoterics set in SMS we are very quick to make HCD changes. John Benik wrote

HSM tapes appear to be getting stuck a lot.

Our environment consists of 2 STK SL8500 libraries and 40 9940 tape drives. We are using the 9940 tape for our HSM data and we can see a tape mounted several times, but then it appears the tape gets stuck. We have to issue and STK dismount command and sometimes we have to issue an MVS unload to

Esoterics set in SMS we are very quick to make HCD changes.

Now that I am at a new company and we have finally insourced our production system I have a question on how we set esoterics. I was always under the impression that we could use SMS and set the esoterics. Here is an example of what's currently in the Dataclass ACS routines. FILTLIST TAPE90

discrete profiles for tape protection.

We have recently begun a tapecopy process from IBM VTS's to STK VSM's. We have run into a few files that on the IBM side exceeded the max vol count for discrete profiles, but when trying to copy them to STK there is an issue and the discrete profile only allows them to go 42 volumes. On the IBM

Re: DR for a single VTS shop.

It can be done, but Strongly recommend the use of open tech's VDR utility. It works much better then IBM's export and import function... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS Sent: Thursday,

A valuable lesson learned.

We recently made the decision to go with all STK equipment for our tape devices. We had to install some STK equipment for swing gear at our out sourcers site. They originally came back with the 9310 silos where too tall. We asked STK to come up with another solution. They did, they suggested

Vol count questions and an opportunity to shine

Hello I hope some of you can help me with this... We made a commitment to our user and applications teams that there would be no JCL changes required when we cut over to a new tape infrastructure. Our thinking was that we would virtualize everything. We are using STK VSM4's and 9940 backend.

STK Tapereqs how to convert from SMS.

We are in the process of converting from IBM VTS's to STK VSM's. STK has recommended that we use tapereqs to accomplish this task. I am not quite clear on what we code in the ACS routines to get it into STK or do we code everything to go to STK and based on criteria we set in Tapereq we go back

RMM Total Block Count when Using Tapecopy.

An original tape in RMM looks like this. Record format . . . . : U Block size . . . . . : 32760 Logical record length : 0 Block count . . . . . : 8871 Total block count . . : 8002 After using tapecopy the output tape looks like this. Record format . . . . : U Block size . . . . . : 32760

Re: Job wanted - but I'm not even sure where to look anymore!

that I landed a job, well that and my good looks!! I mean my skills... John Benik -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Desi de la Garza Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Job wanted

Re: Does anyone have a 3480?

If you have achieved success please let me know how you did it. Thanks John Benik -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Youngren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: RMM Total Block Count when Using Tapecopy.

Thanks Bruce it appears to be as we expected all is fine. We may never know why the total block count is less, but all seems to have been copied. Thanks again John Benik -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Do we need to use OAM and a Volcat if we are using STK?

We are making a switch from all IBM tape equipment to STK. As many of you know the IBM library requires you to use OAM and a volcat. My understanding is that you could consider HSC software to be like OAM, and it also is not necessary to have a volcat. I can't find any information on OAM in the

Re: STK Equipment too tall.

for an STK VSM? Thanks John Benik -- 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

STK Equipment too tall.

I know we can't be the only ones to have ever run into this problem!! We are being told that the new STK equipment we are ordering is 3 inches too tall and cannot go on our outsourcers floor. Has anybody ever run into this in the past and if so what did you do to get around it? We have

Good websites for tape information?

At one time I found a very good website for tape information. I cannot remember what that website was. Does anybody know of any good websites to get tape information on? Thanks John Benik -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff