Sounds like you need to insert TAPE REW followed by TAPE FSF after the tape is mounted and before you invoke SPXTAPE, preferably in the SVM that invokes SPXTAPE.
Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SPXTape & standard labels? I see I was my usual overly-terse self again. The operators' only role in this is to stick the right tape in the right drive. They don't issue any commands in relation to any of this. One SVM issues a mount request, another SVM validates the tape label (or at least that there's a tape mounted) and gives the drive (and tape) to the first SVM, and the SVM performs the SPXTAPE DUMP and then logs off. The symptom is, for at least two straight nights, the volume-validation SVM has complained that it's not the right tape, and a manual check shows, there's no volume label on the tape. I'd love to blame my operators, but I can't figure out how to, so it looks like one or the other of my SVMs is clobbering the tape's standard label. Nick
