The tapes do not have any data on them. They are marked as scratch in the TMS, Tape Catalog and VTL.
Gadi ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Schwab <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 12:30 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Virtual volumes assigned wrong category on TS7770 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
