Susan, I believe you are confusing virtual-volumes in scratch status (which I believe is the 8,226 volumes) and the physical stacking scratch volumes (which I believe you only have 1 left). However, the 141 empty slots indicates that you can insert 141 physical cartridges that do not have active data on them. These could be inserted as scratch physical stacking volumes and give you some relief. Sorry, we don't have a 3494 to play with; so I just read the manual as well.
How long have you had this configuration? How many active (non-scratch) virtual-volumes do you currently have? Are they all inside the robot, or do you use the EXPORT function to put the older ones on a shelf outside the robot? Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chiam, Susan Mee-Shia Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: VTS stacked tapes - urgent help! Hi Listers, We have an urgent problem with our VTS. We have run out of Stacked tape for the VTS. We were told that we have to reduce the scratch volumes so reclaim scratch stacked volumes. Below is our library detail. What I want to find our urgently is to how to reclaim all some of the 8226 scratch volumes back into the scratch stacked volume count? I am trying to read the manual, but with your help, we need to resolve this problem urgently. Thanks. D SMS,LIB(XXVTS1),DETAIL CBR1110I OAM library status: 095 TAPE LIB DEVICE TOT ONL AVL TOTAL EMPTY SCRTCH ON OP LIBRARY TYP TYPE DRV DRV DRV SLOTS SLOTS VOLS XXVTS1 VL 3494-L10 64 60 47 2193 141 8226 Y Y ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MEDIA SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH TYPE COUNT THRESHOLD CATEGORY MEDIA2 8226 750 0002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OPERATIONAL STATE: AUTOMATED ERROR CATEGORY SCRATCH COUNT: 183 SCRATCH STACKED VOLUME COUNT: 1 PRIVATE STACKED VOLUME COUNT: 1445 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
