The symptoms I am seeing are confusing me. If I try to do an RMM AV for a volume. RMM says it is already there. If I try to search for the volumes under the ISPF interface, nothing is found. The entries are there because they show up in the RELEASE list. They refuse to show up in any Volume Search request. The limited information I have is that they are in OPEN as a status. These tapes are not being opened. EDGCPLSC gives the error message I posted Earlier that RMM is preventing the action.
Does a an IDCAMS DEFINE VOLUMEENT automatically generate an RMM AV action? ( I think I have seen that action happen a long time ago when tapes were Moved from INSERT to SCRATCH at the old 3494 libraries). So far, nothing I can do gets the VTS to move a tape out of USER or OPEN to SCRATCH. And the library refuses to ever move anything from SCRATCH to EJECT and PURGE the volume. This is presented in the documentation as a 'Feature' of the hardware because at least once in its life, it was written to and technically contains data (despite the SCRATCH/PRIVATE/MASTER status of RMM or any tape management software. I continue to try to find the right sequence to get the RMM CV commands that will allow them to pass through the entire Life Cycle of the tape. I fear that the VTS is placing a block in the process once a tape has been 'used' and there is data stored in the disk cache. Goals being to end up with a RELEASE EJECT followed by a Delete and the tape goes away from the physical disk cache and internal storage usage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
