John, If you do a "SETSYS PARTIALTAPE(MARKFULL)" before your TAPECOPY, then TAPECOPY will mark all your partial tapes full, you don't need to DELVOL.
Scott On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:39 AM, John Mattson <john_matt...@ea.epson.com>wrote: > The "general" thing about HSM is that there are so many things for > which you cannot run a batch job to do some HSM function and get a > non-zero return code if the function fails. > Really, things like DELVOL which only reply thru TPUT there is no > way to automate a function like MARKFULL with a batch job, not even > Netview or CA's automation products. If you wish to mark all your ML2 > tapes FULL so that you can do TAPECOPY, there must be operator > intervention at some point to confirm that each step happened correctly. > This is insane. It makes "lights out" operation impossible. It brings > human error back into the equation. > If you or, or anyone, knows a way around this, I would appreciate > hearing about it. If you can put a bug in the right IBM ear about this, > I would really appreciate it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > CONFIDENTIALITY/EMAIL NOTICE: The material in this transmission contains confidential and privileged information intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this material in error and that any forwarding, copying, printing, distribution, use or disclosure of the material is strictly prohibited. If you have received this material in error, please (i) do not read it, (ii) reply to the sender that you received the message in error, and (iii) erase or destroy the material. Emails are not secure and can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by email. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
