Thank you Russell for responding. Unfortunately, we do not have any more scratch physical stacking carts around. If you can recall, recently I posted a question regarding tape that was reject as read-only by the VTS. None of us are storage skilled, thus learning to fill this position as no one knows better. As all those tapes that were ejected from the VTS, no one has add a new one to replace the reject tape. Thus, we are not in this situation. Could we reduct this virtual-volumes that were in scratch status to perhaps really free some physical stacking tapes back to the scratch pool? I believe what that are still good are in the robot, those that were eject (as I was told last) are bad, and they should be bin.
-----Original Message----- From: Russell Witt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:26 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Cc: Chiam, Susan Mee-Shia Subject: RE: VTS stacked tapes - urgent help! 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
