This is slightly OT but came up through TSM on z/OS and hoping some 3494 gurus are listening.
Started noticing lots of tape failures/abends (S613-1C) on TSM 5.1.8.x server on z/OS. After doing some digging and noticing the problem was almost always occuring on 1-drive, came upon this weird anomoly on the 3494ATL. When you check the queues, this drive is flagged as having a CLEAN "IN PROGRESS". Eventhough the tape drive (3590B) is empty, we can't seem to convince the ATL that the clean has finished. Any tape mount that gets assigned to this drive (via z/OS) eventually fails since the ATL never completes the mount process. We have reset and power-recycled the drive numerous times. Rebooted the A60 controller. Ejected and re-entered the cleaning tape it thinks it is using. Forced it to rescan/inventory the frame with the drive in it. Still no luck. Even the CE has no suggestions/ideas other than to shut down the whole library, which we are planning to do tonight, unless someone comes up with another idea ! Any thoughts ? Suggestions ? Seen this before ?
