We run "dark" on the weekends and part of the nights. We are having a problem right now with our 3584 tape library, the physical 3590 drive side, not the VTS. The first looks like:
IOS000I 0809,08,IOE,01,0600,,**,101332,POPH302D 790 100410C060127050 0000000000000000 0000000000000091 4204E8205E112011 EQUIPMENT CHECK Now, this usually causes an abend. But we have a _nice_ product, TapeCopy from Rocket, which traps the resultant S714-0C abend, report it, and then continues. In our case, this is a _problem_ because the next message out of these jobs is: *IOS003A 0809,INTERVENTION REQUIRED, READY THE DEVICE At this point, the job "hangs". I'm not sure why it does not S522, except that I _think_ it is in OPEN? In any case, there is no one around to see this message. I happened to notice it because I logged in about 8 p.m. and noticed the job wasn't running. And then noticed that message in the JOBLOG. From 6:23 a.m. that morning. Over 12 hours "lost". Well, I now have a CA-OPS/MVS rule to trap the ISO003A message which causes, eventually, an SMS text message to be sent to the "ON CALL" tech services person. But the only thing I have found to do at this point is to VARY uuuu,OFFLINE,FORCE which causes the job to abend. The SWAP command give an error of some sort. Is there something better that I could do? In addition to the above, I have seen: CBR3776I Volume 101855 inaccessible in library $ATL0002. Which I think means that the robot did not take the tape from the drive having a problem. Which definitely means somebody needs to go in to pause the library, retrieve the tape, unpause the library, put the tape in the input drawer. Which leads to its own problems because we shared the idiot machine with a Windows server with __IDIOT__ software which aborts if the library is paused when it decides to mount a tape. This rather than waiting a bit and retrying a few times. Any words of wisdom, or commiseration, are welcome. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
