Did you check all datasets on the tape?  I.E. Label=2 or higher.

‪On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM ‫גדי בן אבי‬‎ <[email protected]>
wrote:‬

> Hi,
> During an audit of our virtual tape system, we found many virtual volumes
> that were assigned the wrong category.
> This caused these virtual volumes to be unusable.
> We're trying to correct the problem.
> If we use ISMF option 2.3 (Mountable Tape) to change the attributes of the
> virtual volume to PRIVATE and then back to SCRATCH, the volume is assigned
> the correct category.
> We're looking for a way to do this in batch, since we have a about 400
> virtual volumes that need to be fixed.
>
> We tried using these commands:
> ALTER VD02026 VOLENT USEATTRIBUTE(PRIVATE) STORAGEGROUP(TAPE)
> ALTER VD02026 VOLENT USEATTRIBUTE(SCRATCH)
>
> But they don't do the job.
> What are we doing wrong?
>
> We're using z/OS v3.1.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gadi
>
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