We had a problem with our tape library. We are sure exactly what, yet, but one CE indicated that he _thinks_ it might be a "flaky" fibre switch. The remote support engineer said that one thing he suggests to do is a "soft activate" (software only) of the current IODF. I.e. do:
ACTIVATE IODF=nn,SOFT=NOVALIDATE This is to make sure that the tape UCBs don't have any sort of error status in them from the z/OS side. What I've always done, in the past, was to vary the SMS library offline, then back online. I can do this because we only use the ATL, physical 3590 drives, for our disaster backups. These run starting about 06:00 until maybe 11:30. My question is what do the ACTIVATE above do. I've never heard of such a thing before. Not that I'm saying it won't do anything, I'm just admitting to ignorance. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
