Caveat: insert Daily Digest delay here... As mentioned before, problem one (not picking tapes) likely indicates the library has not been through an "Inventory" cycle where it scans all the slots in the library. [1] Likewise, problem two is probably related to the same since, without doing an inventory, the library doesn't where to put the tape after it's done. "You inserted it, *you* put it back."
We suspect, after observation of our new library last year, that the library might use a "lazy" algorithm regarding tape ejects. Ours appeared to leave the tape in place until another action was required. Perhaps, some smart, hardware programmer figured, if a tape was used once, its probability of reuse in the near future is likely high. [1] on our 3494, you could look-up any volSer - using * wildcard - to find their physical location in the library. If you have access, you might try the same on the T3500. I'll bet the result set will be empty. Don't know if ISMF (=L3.2.3) will provide a similar confirmation. --------> signature = 6 lines follows <-------- Neil Duffee, Joe Sysprog, uOttawa, Ottawa, Ont, Canada telephone:1 613 562 5800 x4585 fax:1 613 562 5161 mailto:NDuffee of uOttawa.ca http:/ /aix1.uOttawa.ca/ ~nduffee "How *do* you plan for something like that?" Guardian Bob, Reboot "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." "Systems Programming: Guilty, until proven innocent" John Norgauer 2004 -----Original Message----- From: Arun Prasad Chinnadurai [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: October 15, 2014 09:44 Subject: Issue with TS3500 Tape Library. On our site we have installed a new TS3500 tape library. When we submit a backup job, the robot inside the library is not picking up the tape using the barcodes (As of now, we are manually moving the tapes to the drive). Also the drive is not ejecting the tape out(moving it to empty slot) after a successful read/write operation. What could be the problem here ? FYKI : We are using 3592 JB tapes and the VOLSER reporting on the tape library is configured to 6 digits. All the tapes are initialized with six digit VOLSER. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
