Hi,
If you show us the RMM LV result, we could investigate the volume status.
Anyway, the current RMM Volume registry must be unreliable.
So could you execute RMM DELETEVOLUME volser FORCE NOEJECT prior to RMM
ADDVOLUME & RMM DELETEVOLUME RELEASE ?
Best regards,
Nobuhiko Furuya(古谷信彦)
V-SOL Inc.
On 2023/06/03 7:18, Tom Longfellow wrote:
The symptoms I am seeing are confusing me.
If I try to do an RMM AV for a volume. RMM says it is already there.
If I try to search for the volumes under the ISPF interface, nothing is found.
The entries are there because they show up in the RELEASE list. They refuse
to show up in any Volume Search request. The limited information I have is
that they are in OPEN as a status. These tapes are not being opened.
EDGCPLSC gives the error message I posted Earlier that RMM is preventing the
action.
Does a an IDCAMS DEFINE VOLUMEENT automatically generate an RMM AV action? ( I
think I have seen that action happen a long time ago when tapes were Moved from
INSERT to SCRATCH at the old 3494 libraries).
So far, nothing I can do gets the VTS to move a tape out of USER or OPEN to
SCRATCH. And the library refuses to ever move anything from SCRATCH to EJECT
and PURGE the volume. This is presented in the documentation as a 'Feature'
of the hardware because at least once in its life, it was written to and
technically contains data (despite the SCRATCH/PRIVATE/MASTER status of RMM or
any tape management software.
I continue to try to find the right sequence to get the RMM CV commands that
will allow them to pass through the entire Life Cycle of the tape. I fear
that the VTS is placing a block in the process once a tape has been 'used' and
there is data stored in the disk cache. Goals being to end up with a RELEASE
EJECT followed by a Delete and the tape goes away from the physical disk cache
and internal storage usage.
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