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I have found two shops recently that initialized every tape IBMIRD. Curiously they were both in the S/36 Environment. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" e gads Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com http://www.as400connection.com rob@xxxxxxxxx Sent by: midrange-l-bounce To s@xxxxxxxxxxxx Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 06/12/2006 09:49 cc AM Subject Re: CHKTAP? Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> Good ideal Al. We started using a unique ID for each volume a few years back. (Does anyone still use IBMIRD?) And we incorporated a PRTERRLOG *VOLSTAT at the end of every backup. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces+rob=dekko.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx 06/12/2006 09:40 AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: CHKTAP? There are never any guarantees that you will be able to use a tape. INZTAP CLEAR(*YES) gives you some sort of a clue, but no guarantee. Your best bet is to uniquely initialize each tape, and initialize only once or with the same NEWVOL parameter each time. You can then run DSPERRLOG *VOLSTAT for that tape, and see if the number of errors is high. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z" e gads Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor! 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com http://www.as400connection.com "Ketzes, Larry" <Larry.Ketzes@AIG .com> To Sent by: Midrange Systems Technical midrange-l-bounce Discussion s@xxxxxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc 06/12/2006 09:14 Subject AM CHKTAP? Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> Folks. Does anyone know of a command that can be executed that will check to see if a tape can be read properly all the way through. I had a media error, and I want to ensure that the tape can actually be read if needed. I thought that the CHKTAP command did that, but after reading the description of the command's help text, I'm not sure if this command will actually try to read all of the tape. Thanks, Larry ====================== Larry Ketzes Senior Security Project Analyst American Life Insurance Company One ALICO Plaza 600 King Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Phone: 302-594-2146 Mobile: 302-559-1631 Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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