I am faced with repeating a process that I have gotten to work once, but do not remember how. Been working with libraries since the 1990's and a B18 with a serial number under 20. Survived fun with Physical/Logical volumes Eject/Insert and everything in between.
What I am facing today is determining the correct set of commands that I can use to balance the needs of RMM, VOLCATs, 'LI REQ' commands to get some zombie abandoned tape volumes out of the VTS GRID. These tapes were created on a partitioned set of volumes in category 001x. The creating system has since been shutdown. The VOLUMEENT and RMM volume information was deleted. Leaving the VTS unable and unwilling to perform an EJECT PURGE. This leaves me with wasted space in my Grid Cluster member. I know in general that the VTS is trying to protect the data entrusted to it by refusing to delete a volume to which data was written. As the owner of that data, I wish to free the poor VTS of that burden. Plus remove the security exposure of maintaining data for the purview of hackers with greater skills than me. A convincing Cybersecurity argument can be made and hope to avoid that conversation in the future with an overzealous auditor. Sorry for the ramble. Bottom Line is I need a cookbook with the series of events to get tapes in categories 0012 and 001F into an EJECT category (FFxx?) for removal from the VTS. Has anyone else ever gone through this and have the series of commands and actions required to clean this mess up? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
