LONG STORY- but I won't bore everyone with it. 4 days later and the new 3590s are running.
Had specialist tell me I needed to mark all my migration/backup volumes as full. Also to set readcompatability in the Attributes section of RMM. So I wanted to re-int, label, a tape to see if it writes on the tape at the new density. So I dumped the label of a volume and it says for density - 3590. I re-int the volume and it still says 3590 for the density. So I don't know if it worked or not. I did this all under VM because of my new problem. How do you initialize an existing tape under z/OS? I tried to use DITTO INT function. But it tells me I can't do that to a Scratch tape. Well I sure don't want to do it to a Master tape! See my JCL below. //DTOBAT PROC //DTOBAT EXEC PGM=DITTO //STEPLIB DD DSN=DIT.V1R3M0.SDITMOD1,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=* //SYSDUMP DD SYSOUT=* // PEND //* //INITTAPE EXEC DTOBAT //TAPE DD DISP=(SHR,KEEP),DSN=DUMMY,LABEL=(,BLP),UNIT=CART, // VOL=(,RETAIN,SER=ML5000) //SYSIN DD * $$DITTO REW LABEL=BLP,OUTPUT=TAPE $$DITTO INT OUTPUT=TAPE,VOLSER=ML5000 $$DITTO RUN OUTPUT=TAPE -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems
