When we browsed a ML1 tape on dasd, we saw the real DSN at the start of
each dataset.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 11:51 Nigel Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Two wildly different thoughts:
>
> 1. Might it be possible to mount the offending tape manually depending of
> course on what's failed in the library?
> 2. DFSMShsm AUDIT MEDIACONTROLS once the tape has been transported to the
> main site. This probably involves less risk of bodily harm.
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 03:40, fred glenlake <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > I have a small remote site that we are upgrading the physical tape
> library
> > to a virtual TS7700 library.  All went well until the old library had a
> > serious hardware error.   My leadership has decided not to spend the
> money
> > to repair the old failed library (of course now out of warranty and
> > maintenance).   However, I still have one more ML2 tape worth of data to
> > migrate to the new library.
> >
> > If we bring the ML2 tape back to our main site would it be possible to
> > read the ML2 tape to extract the data off of it?   The only way I can
> think
> > of is to also bring copies of all the CDS's and Journal from the remote
> > site, restore those CDS's (MCDS, BCDS, OCDS) and Journal.  Then bring
> down
> > the "real" DFHSM and bring up the "Remote" DFHSM to be able to recall the
> > data off of the ML2 tape.
> >
> > Unfortunately running the "hsend list dsname both" commands on the ML2
> > datasets shows No BCDS records so I cannot just recover the ML2 datasets
> > from BCDS copies.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Fred G.
> >
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