Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes. The application owner and the tech support for the silos uncataloged the datasets and changed the Expdt to the current date expecting the nightly TMS functions to flip the scratch bit for each of these tapes. I thought I could delete the p

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT" wrote in message news:... > We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes. > The application owner and the tech support for the silos uncataloged the datasets and changed the Expdt to the current date expecting the nightly TMS functions to flip the sc

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread John Kington
David, >We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes. >The application owner and the tech support for the silos uncataloged the >>datasets and changed the Expdt to the current date expecting the nightly TMS >>functions to flip the scratch bit for each of these tapes. > >I thought I co

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
n NIH Contractor From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM [kees.vern...@klm.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status &qu

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
ergys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status David, >We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes. >The application owner and the tech support for the silos uncataloged the >>datasets a

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread John Kington
David, >From the inquiry, it looks like all of the chaining is missing or has been >removed. The only option that I can suggest is to turn on the scratch bit with >tmsupdate. VOL 200041 VER DSN=NIH.NEUMICS.PPT.MBACKUP.CHECKPT.G0059V00 OI FLAG1=04 Regards, John 513-723-7527 john.king...@con

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:04:32 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: >John and Jay, > > Thanks for responding, no EDM is not involved nor do we use 'out of area' codes. Our off-site tapes are written to a remote silo so there is no need for tape movement. > >Volseq is not equal to 001 and

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status David, >From the inquiry, it looks like all of the chaining is missing or has been >removed. The only option that I can suggest is to turn on the scratch bit with >tmsupdate.

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread Linda Mooney
ic Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status John and Jay,   Thanks for responding, no EDM is not involved nor do we use 'out of area' codes. Our off-site tapes are written to a remote silo so there is no need for tape movement. Volseq is not equal to 001 and the dataset

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
oney [linda.lst...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status Hi David, It is likely that the inital update(s) happened with NOCHAIN in use, otherwise a scratch operation should have failed for anything o

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
nesday, September 16, 2009 10:33 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status > > "O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT" wrote in > message > news:... > > We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes. > > The a

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-18 Thread Prabhath V Gannavarapu
Hi, Have noticed a few of HSM duplexed tapes becoming orphan. These have a permanent retention to them. So, they are neither being controlled by HSM to DELVOL and get the tape returned to CA-1 control...neither CA-1 is getting the control as it has the EDMID ON to point to HSM and FLAG3 to 20 f

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-18 Thread David Waldman
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:56:13 +0530, Prabhath V Gannavarapu wrote: >Hi, Have noticed a few of HSM duplexed tapes becoming orphan. These have a permanent retention to them. So, they are neither being controlled by HSM to DELVOL and get the tape returned to CA-1 control...neither CA-1 is getting