Susan, Since you are down to only 1 physical scratch stacking volume, I am not sure how much "recycling" the 3494/VTS will perform. Yes, scratching virtual-volumes may help; but there are other considerations. There is an option that tells OAM how long to keep a scratched-virtual-volume after it has been scratched before releasing its space (sorry, I do not remember this option). If this value is set high (the default is very high I believe); then simply scratching virtual-volumes will not help at all (since the data will be retained until the scratched virtual-volume is actually re-used).
I would strongly recommend contacting someone from IBM to help. The "read-only" cartridges could be as simple as the read-only tab being turned before the cartridge was entered into the robot. Sorry I could not be of more help. Russell Witt -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chiam, Susan Mee-Shia Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VTS stacked tapes - urgent help! 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
