Did someone change your VTS replication policy? Sounds like it is now having to wait for the volume to be fully transferred to another VTS to assure you have two copies, before the rewind/unload is allowed to complete.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idao300/d_copymode.htm?lang=en On 14 April 2016 at 20:30, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:12:12 +0000, Staller, Allan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > >Are you recording SMF 19? IIRC this can greatly elongate the SMF dump > process as the system goes to touch every online volume for each SMF > dataset switch. > > > > Right - at SMF switch time. But the problem seems to be at the end of the > dump. Almost as > if it was taking 15 minutes to to rewind a physical tape. At least that > seems to be the problem > as it was described. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > ITIL v3 Foundation Certified > mailto:[email protected] > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
