I would suspect that another LPAR with different TMS has to do with it.
It happened to a few customers of mine.
Usually it was a test system in the other LPAR with the same scratch
category. in DEVSUPXX parmlib's member.
That is why I always preach to change the IBM default categories.

Regards,
Arye


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> We have an IBM TS7770 and we use BMC's Control-T for our tape management.
> We are running z/OS 2.4 on an IBM z15.
> Today, I encountered two volumes that had cataloged datasets and were
> properly retained by CTT, that got the IEC149I 813-04
> ABEND. As part of that message, the contents of the dataset header record
> is displayed and it was zeroes. Normally, when
> CTT scratches a tape, it requests the VTS to zero the dataset header
> record. I looked through the various CTT batch jobs for
> that LPAR, and everything said the tapes were cataloged and being retained
> by CTT. In addition, I used ISMF to display the two
> tapes, and the volumes were marked as private.
>
> Lastly, I logged onto the TS7770 UI and displayed the virtual volumes and
> the used MBs indicated the tape was in scratch
> status. I checked the TS7770 for error messages, but I did not find any.
> Does anybody have an idea as to how this can
> happen? Thanks in advance.
>
> "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit."
>
> Bugs Bunny
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