That would depend on your library. However, you can check those tapes you recently checked in against those you cannot now find and if the numbers are different lengths you have the volser number issue.
I have two 3584 libraries and they are accessed by going to: http://libip I'm assuming your library has a web interface if it's an IBM Library. Oh, you can also check in all the "unavailable" tapes by setting the search=yes and status=private, then you should be able to mark them readwrite again. If you're library sees them, you should be able to see them via TSM. That just made me think. When they added the licenses there's a possiblity your slot numbers changed (especially if you added slots slot 057 is now 1057, etc.) so that the volumes are visible, they're just not where they're supposed to be. Try the Checkin (do on one or two volumes to test), and if that doesn't work, physically move them out of the Library, and then check them in via the IO slots. Making sure to check them in as Private. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of ashish sharma Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:55 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] unexpected result from audit library Hello Howard, Yes , they intervened as we didnt had the licenses for all the slots we have in the library and we asked for aditional number of licenses. Could you please let me know how can i check volser length set in the web interface? On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Howard Coles <howard.co...@ardenthealth.com>wrote: > That's what I would expect at this point either the volume serial > length, or the licenses aren't right. I would check the volser length > set in the web interface with the volume names you have in TSM. I'll > bet the length is different. Then I'd call IBM and yell till someone > came out and corrected my problem. Why were they messing with the > licenses on your library? I wonder if you got choked down to the number > of slots or something along those lines. I've had problems with IBM > assuming they can just get in and do things myself. If they didn't > contact you, or alert anyone that they were going to be doing this I'd > be on their case hard. > > See Ya' > Howard Coles Jr. > John 3:16! > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > km > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:07 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] unexpected result from audit library > > They didnt perhaps change the length of volser (i.e. if LTO generation > should be a part of the volume serial or not)? That would explain not > finding any already checked in volumes. > > On 02/01, ashish sharma wrote: > > Hello Howard, > > > > Yes i received a lot of messages " cant find tapes in slot". I just > received > > a mail from local system admin saying IBM did some intervention on the > > library for installing liocenses and i suspect that may have caused > some > > malfunctioning in library which is unable to find the tapes which were > > already present. > > > -- Best Regards Ashish Sharma ST Microelectronics Ltd. 919717003853
