So some basic questions 1) What version of z/OS? 2) If you do a F dfhsmtaskname,Q SETSYS does it show the same info as the ARCCMDxx member? 3) What is the specific messages you are seeing during autobackup?
Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: HSM question > > HSM is not my ballgame, but I am tasked with figuring out this puzzle, so bear > with me. As for background, the shop attempts to run lights-out 24/7. > > Once a week, HSM performs an AUTOBACKUP. Until about 3 months ago, if nobody > was at the shop, HSM would ask for an exiting tape, wait 10 minutes, and if no > tape was mounted, it would ask "Can tape be mounted?". If our remote operator > replied 'N', then HSM would us a scratch tape. About once ever month or so, we > would run a recycle job to combine all the tapes. > > About 3 months ago, we had some internal discussions about 'fixing' this so > that it would just use scratch tapes without asking for an existing tape. The > next thing we knew, the weekly tapes would automatically use a scratch tape. > This was good. I assumed that one of the other guys had changed something. > > Then came the time change and the resulting IPL. Now everything is different. > It seems to work the way it did prior to 3 months ago, except for one problem. > When the operator replies that the tape can not be mounted, instead of HSM > using a scratch tape, it now asks for another HSM tape. After about 4 hours of > this last week, I got in my car and went down an mounted the tape. (I am the > only one that lives in the same town as the processor.) > > Discussions with all the 3 others involved in the discussion 3 months ago came > back with "I did not change anything 3 months ago." > > But, the other 2 guys that know HSM also say "We are busy. If you want it > different, figure it out and change it." > > Key items I see in the config file are: > SETSYS > PARTIALTAPE( > BACKUP(MARKFULL) - > MIGRATION(MARKFULL)) > SETSYS > SELECTVOLUME( > BACKUP(SCRATCH) > MIGRATION(SCRATCH) - > DUMP(SCRATCH)) > SETSYS > RECYCLEPERCENT(33) > MAXRECYCLETASKS(1) > SETSYS > TAPEUTILIZATION( > UNITTYPE(3590-1) PERCENTFULL(97)) > SETSYS > TAPESPANSIZE(100) > > (And the output of HSEND QUERY SETSYS is the same.) > > The last update date stamp on the config files was 15/12/22. > > So, I have come to the conclusion that somebody issued a command to HSM but > did not update the config file so it would be handled at the next IPL. > > Looking for any input. > > -- > Tony Thigpen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
