Mark, I tried your suggestion, however when I type PRIVATE in the USE ATTR field it keeps going back to scratch. I am sure I am doing something wrong. Where do I type PRIVATE?
--- On Tue, 19/7/11, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mark Zelden <[email protected]> Subject: Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, 19 July, 2011, 10:36 PM On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:43:31 -0700, John Dawes <[email protected]> wrote: >G'Day, > >A tape dsn was expired by CA-1 and is in "SCRATCH" status. I cataloged the >tape dsn. However, when I try to REPRO the tape to another dsn SMS is >preventing me from using the tape: > >IGD330I ERROR OCCURRED DURING CBRXLCS PROCESSING- >VOLUME REQUESTED BY SPECIFIC VOLUME SERIAL IS A SCRATCH VOLUME >THE FAILING VOLSER IS Y42934 >IGD306I UNEXPECTED ERROR DURING ?CBRXLCS PROCESSING >RETURN CODE 8 REASON CODE 51 >THE MODULE THAT DETECTED THE ERROR IS IGDCAT01 >SMS MODULE TRACE BACK - CAT01 CAT00 SSIRT > >I tried specifying the UNIT=3490 & VOLSER however no dice. SMS blocks me >again. Is there a way of bypassing SMS? > >Thanks in advance. > Use ISMF and make the tape PRIVATE (option 2.3). When you are done you can make it scratch again or give it a future expiration in CA-1 and then it will scratch it within CA-1 and the OAM TCDB at that time. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
