Dave, In TSM, when changing the device type for a storage pool, I would recommend, creating a new device class, for pointing to the new esoteric. Then create a new stgpool, using that new device class. Update the stgpool hierarchy to refer to the new stgpool (or if writing direct to it, update the management class to point to it).
Once that's done, you'd update the old tape stgpool to have the new pool as the next level. Then force a migration of the data from the 9840d's to the vsm. If that is not possible, try going through and updating any of the tapes, that are on the 9840d's, and change their status from readwrite to readonly. This effectively does the same type of thing as the markfull of hsm. Peter On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:49:42 -0500, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] <[email protected]> wrote: >Some time ago I changed the device type for Devclass Cartridge from an esoteric for 9840Ds to an esoteric for our VSM unit. > >I neglected to see that I had a 9840D cart with a status of 'filling'. >Since the devclass now points to VSM, I'm getting the following msg. > >ANR5373I Cannot allocate tape drive of unit type ETAPE for tape Q00003. Reply C(cancel), R (retry), or W(wait). > >I browsed the Admin Reference manual but did not see a command which would allow me to change the status of this tape to FULL. > >Any suggestions welcomed. > >I could change the devclass back to the former esoteric but then I'd get error msgs. on the 2 open virtual tapes. > > >Thank You, >Dave O'Brien >NIH Contractor > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
