On donderdag, september 5, 2002, at 11:49 , Mario Strehlow wrote: > Hello, > > I use TSM 5.1 on AIX4.3.3 with a 3494 with four 3590E drives. > There's a strange behaviour when using the label libvol command. > The command is used like this: > > label libvol 3494lib search=yes checkin=scratch devt=3590 > volrange=031000,031001 > > The command returns successfully, but nothing happens. > I know that this happens, when no tapes within this volrange exist, > but I > can see them in the database of the 3494. > > If I use the command > > label libvol 031001 checkin=scratch devt=3590 > > it works, but I don't want to do this for 500 tapes. > > Is it a TSM bug? >
i think i noticed just recently that volrange does not work for just two tapes, you must use vollist in that case. Could it have bene that you had no tape-drives available at that time, te reason label libvol quits is in the actlog.... > Mario Strehlow > --- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 PGP keys at http://home.sara.nl/~remco/keys.asc "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
