On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:10:39 -0400, Jousma, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All, > >I have a weird one going that I need some direction on. I've got a tape >that was created this past Friday with 136 stacked files on it. BTW, >this is a vitual 3490 tape emulated in the new IBM Hydra 7700 VTS. What >is weird is that there are a bunch of stacked files missing(note the >missing FSEQ #'s): > >43 1P1.COPY.G1024V00 FB 4096 28672 2285 159.7 4509.5 >13APR2007 000000099 P0DBDXCA/STPU001 P 5 NO 0 0 >44 2P1.COPY.G1024V00 FB 4096 28672 85 6.0 4515.5 >13APR2007 000000099 P0DBDXCA/STPU001 P 5 NO 0 0 >52 0P1.COPY.G1023V00 FB 4096 28672 2 0.2 4515.7 >13APR2007 000000099 P0DBDXCA/STPU001 P 5 NO 2 0 >60 8P1.COPY.G1023V00 FB 4096 28672 10 0.7 4516.4 >13APR2007 000000099 P0DBDXCA/STPU001 P 5 NO 2 0 >61 9P1.COPY.G1023V00 FB 4096 28672 8451 590.7 5107.1 >13APR2007 000000099 P0DBDXCA/STPU001 P 5 NO 0 0 >62 0P1.COPY.G1023V00 FB 4096 28672 41354 2890.3 7997.4 >13APR2007 000000099 P0DBDXCA/STPU001 P 5 NO 0 0 > >Of course the jobs abending want a dataset cataloged to this tape at >FSEQ #46. CA-1 says it's there, the CATALOG says it should be there, >but this tape label dump of the virtual tape, clearly shows its not >there. I've looked at the job that created this tape, and no abends, or >abnormal messages, nothing in LOGREC. > >I'm at a loss of where to look next. If this were a real tape, I'd >think that the tape was bad. I'm even at a loss on where to start with >problem tickets - hardware? CA-1, Z/OS (1.6). I'm almost thinking it >is somehow a problem with the 7700. > >Thanks for any feedback. > Being that it is a virtual tape, my first suspect with be the 7700. What does CA-1 tell you for how many blocks were on the file? Anything in common with the other missing files? "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
