Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-05-01 Thread Brett Danals
Thanks to all for the input.. The solution, whether right or not... REPRO the OCDS and MCDS to a flat file.. edit them and change the 3490 device type to my VTAPE esoteric.. del/def the CDS's and REPRO back in.. I am holding RECYCLE and other automatic processes until I can get the vendor to

HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-04-29 Thread Brett Danals
I am currently converting my physical tape environment to Virtual and have found a snag. I have started the RECYCLE process and I found a problem. A user recalled a dataset that was on a recycled tape, HSM asks for the correct volume to be mounted, but it wants it mounted on an old 3490

Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-04-29 Thread Brett Danals
Thank you for the reply.. I do have the USERUNITTABLE defined for my esoteric. My Virtual is defined as a 9484 and HSM does not recognize that. I'm not having a problem with remembering the drive.. the oddest thing is, that we haven't used these tape drives for HSM since the late 90's. There

Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-04-29 Thread Hervey Martinez
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brett Danals Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 3:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape Thank you for the reply.. I do have the USERUNITTABLE defined for my esoteric. My Virtual is defined as a 9484 and HSM does

Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-04-29 Thread Brett Danals
Ahh ha! I think you are onto something.. We are not managing tape datasets, but I started looking at routines and it looks like it verifies the device to decide if it needs managed... I did not add my virtual tape esoteric I'll do that straight away and update when done... Thanks!!!

Re: HSM Recall from a Virtual tape

2013-04-29 Thread Brett Danals
Uhm.. well . that didn't work.. I have entries to test the device and it would set the storage class to '', in a sense it would bypass SMS routines. Back to square one -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive