What errors are you receiving? When was the last time you IPLed z/VM, where the ATL devices available to VM at that IPL? If not, try deleting all the RDEVs associated with the ATL devices and recreating, see if that corrects the errors.
What do you mean by manually loading a tape? You mean at the ATL itself or by VM? RMS is required on the VM system to control the ATL, IE. mount a tape for a VM user ID. Best Regards, Les Geer IBM z/VM and Linux Development >I meant the addresses were dfferent in the tape library and in the IOCP >initially. Now they are the same, but the system is still not able to >access the tape addresses. I know in order to use the library, it is >necessary to have DFSMS RMS installed, but the system should be able >recognize a path to those addresses. Is this assumption correct? > >I thought DFSMS RMS was necessary to use the robotics within the ATL. I >thought one could manually load the tape drives without having DFSMS RMS >configured. > >Please advice. > > >>I am having difficulty getting my z/VM 5.1 system to recognize an IBM 3494 >>Tape Library. >> >>Initially the addresses within the tape library were defined as 200, 201. >>My IOCP had them listed as 300, 301. I was told this change would have been >>sufficient to access the tape library, but I still can not access the >>library. >> >>My definitions for the IBM 3494 are: >> CHPID PATH=(13),PCHID=113,TYPE=FC,SHARED >> CHPID PATH=(17),PCHID=143,TYPE=FC,SHARED >>TAPE CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=300,PATH=(13,17),UNITADD=((00,16)), X >> CUADD=F0,UNIT=3590 >> IODEVICE ADDRESS=(300,16),UNIT=3590,CUNUMBR=(300),PATH=13 >> >>The CE said a "LIBPORT=1" paramenter needed to be added to the IOCP. I read >>through the IOCP macro defintions for CHPID, CNTLUNIT and IODEVICE but >>didn't see a "LIBPORT" parmameter described. >> >>Hopefully someone has an IBM 3494 tape library defined and is willing to >>share their IOCP defintion for it. >>
