Fred, Skimming over your post, the idea that the machines had taken over and that the humans were no longer the predominant intelligence on the planet came to mind. There's an air of "We know best, just do as we say" about this.
Then I peeked at your address, "Northern Territory Government". That'll be the city of Darwin I expect. How appropriate that the place where this evolutionary step first (perhaps I shouldn't be so sure about that) happened should be named after the person who is normally acknowledged as the person who first proposed the relevant theory. However, whenever the matter of the birth of the theory of evolution comes up, it should be noted that, some way to the north and west of the city of Darwin, there is an imaginary line on the surface of the seas separating the islands of the Malay Archipelago, now Indonesia, called "Wallace's Line"[1]. It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace who eked out an existence among the islands acquiring exotic specimens for wealthy collectors. In doing so his inquiring mind also came up with the famous theory and, knowing Darwin, he sent him a summary, asking him whether he thought the idea was worth publishing. Darwin was now forced both to finish his leisurely writing on the same topic and acknowledge Wallace as a co-author in a paper to the Linnean Society. By rights, the famous theory should be named after both Darwin and Wallace. Chris Mason [1] Essentially separating Asian and Australian mammals. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: How to identify what is on a duplexed HSM migration tape marked as Scratch > Hi fellow listers, > > We have suddenly seen a large number of tapes appear on our daily scratch > volume list. We are a bit nervous about releasing them for scratch, since > they are HSM migration tape duplex copies and we don't see the original > tape of the duplex pair in this list. We expected that both tapes of a > duplex pair would be marked scratch at the same time. > > We would like to identify some datasets on these tapes and check that they > really do no longer exist as catalog entries with VOLSER of MIGRAT* on the > system. > > Unfortunately, as far as HSM is concerned, the tapes are now marked as > scratch. This means we cannot do a LIST TTOC for these volumes in the OCDS > to see what datasets are on the tape. We also cannot identify what the > VOLSER is of the other volume in the duplex pair. > > Tape utilities to list the tape's contents seem to be a waste of time, as > there is only one dsname on the tape, ie HSM.COPY.HMIGTAPE.DATASET and the > actual data is in a compressed form. > > We ran a HSM audit to see if that gave us a warm fuzzy feeling. We saw > lots of "FIX ATTEMPT - BAD TTOC SUCCESSFUL", but no VOLSER's were > mentioned in the output. This also makes us nervous. > > Some manual changes to CA1's OUTCODE for various tapes were made prior to > the increase in the scratch tape list. But we are not sure if this is > related to the problem. > > HSM gurus.... help! Please. > > > Regards, > Fred Schmidt > Senior Systems Programmer > Department of Corporate and Information Services (DCIS) > Data Centre Services (DCS) > Northern Territory Government > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone (08) 89 99 6891 > Fax (08) 89 99 7493 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
