Art, I have seen this occur when the Batch job gets cancelled but the DFHSMABR task does not. If you cancel the ABARS task then the tape should release - or at the least become unallocated on the drive in which case you can just issue an MVS unload to the drive.
Thanks....Rick -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arturo A. Arca Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 6:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFHSM can not allocate tape volume In my research this morning I found out that what had caused DFSMSHSM to hold on to tape 410239 was that the ABARS job that was reading the tape had been cancelled and never restarted and/or rerun. so by bring down DFSMSHSM the tape allocation was released. But I still would appreciate if someone knows how I could of identified which of the 5 DFSMSHSM had the tape allocated and if I could of issued a command to release the tape without bring the DFSMSHSM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
