Well... problem is that originaly the tapes where labelled with 6 chars. If you wish to use 8 char volser, you need to relabel them after having enabled the 8 char volser reporting on the library.
First check out your tapes (remove=no), then launch: label libv search=yes labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch overwrite=yes Labelsource=barcode allow the use by tsm of the volser reported by the library (8 char in your case) Overwrite=yes instruct tsm to overwrite the original label written on the tape, except if the label already exist in a storage pool or in volhistory Be carefull that, using 6 char labelled tapes with 8 char volser reporting on the library will generate potential mistakes when, particularly, checking in tapes without checklabel or auditing librarry with checklabel=barcode So you have to choose, first, waht kind of volser reporting you want to use, then label ALL tapes. Pierre Cayé -----Message d'origine----- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Richard Sims Envoyé : jeudi 3 mai 2007 02:01 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] 8 char volser in 3584 On May 2, 2007, at 7:45 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: > No data on these tapes. They are scratch 3592s. They were in the > 3584 as six characters. I checked them out, remove=no, to leave them > unclaimed in the 3584. I then switched the 3584 to 8 characters and > checked them back in to tsm as scratch tapes. tsm still sees them as > 6 characters. Do I have to physically removed them from the library, > reinventory to get rid of the 6 characters, then reinsert them to pick > up the 8 characters? David - IBM Technote 1217789 will be a good reference for your purposes. Particularly see the last paragraph. Richard Sims of Boston University
