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On Wednesday, September 10th, 2025 at 11:25 PM, Arye Shemer 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM rpinion865 <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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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