Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Jack Zukt
That is what I am betting on. Something is being done by DB2 or SORT that keeps the "TAPE ON" message from showing for such a long time. I was hoping for someone that had experienced this situation before. Jack On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 15:00, Jack Zukt wrote: > Yes, they are all VTS drives > And

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Jack Zukt
Yes, they are all VTS drives And there are no IEF455D pending messages for the duration of the. And multiple jobs usinf PRIVAT tapes were executed while this one had this behavior. Which occurred on all the various runs from the first one, until and including the last ones (which was successful,

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I wonder if this is a deferred mount? without knowing what DB2 job is running it maybe doing some processing on DASD, then writing to tape? Carmen On 7/11/2022 8:46 AM, Clifford McNeill wrote: The IEF455D msg is probably in the syslog not the joblog.  I think it might be the key.  I see tape

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Clifford McNeill
The IEF455D msg is probably in the syslog not the joblog.  I think it might be the key.  I see tape mounts on device 7070 and later on 3671.   Are they both VTS drives? On 7/11/2022 8:34 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: Not likely This is the relevant JOB LOG J E S 2 J O B L O

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I see the joblog, was there any other messages on the syslog around that time, for DB2 archive offload I usually see MOUNT TAPE on or REPLY. Carmen On 7/11/2022 8:23 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: Hi all, Last night we had a weird situation that prompted the operations people to contact one

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Jack Zukt
Not likely This is the relevant JOB LOG J E S 2 J O B L O G -- S Y S T E M S Y A 1 -- N O D E P R D 1 05.34.24 J1234567 SUNDAY,10 JUL 2022 05.34.24 J1234567 IRR010I USERID OPCDB2P IS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB. 05.34.24 J1234567 ICH70001I OPCDB2P

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Clifford McNeill
Did you run out of tape drives?  Can you show the IEF455D msg? On 7/11/2022 8:23 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: RESPOND TO IEF455D MESSAGE -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Jack Zukt
Hi all, Last night we had a weird situation that prompted the operations people to contact one of our standby teams. A DB2 job started running and requested a PRIVAT tape: 05.34.24 J1234567 IEF403I DB2PRJ1O - STARTED - TIME=05.34.24 05.34.30 J1234567 IEF233D M