Re: Tape hardware resources

Rob,

I'm sorry - here's a correction - I was playing around and things have changed.

What troubles are you having varying on the devices?

With these settings, my vary on error is:

Device descriptions look like this (differences marked <-----)

Device description . . . . . . . . : TAPMLB02
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *MLB

Device class . . . . . . . . . . . : *TAP
Resource name . . . . . . . . . . : TAPMLB02
Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : 3582
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : 001


Device description . . . . . . . . : TAP02
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *TAP

Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : 3580
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : 002
Resource name . . . . . . . . . . : TAP02 <----------

When varying TAP02 on with this, it fails with:

Cause . . . . . : The device resource is currently in use by object TAPMLB02
type *DEVD. If the object name and type are blanks, either the resource is
in use by the Dedicated Service Tools (DST), another client, or the data is
not available.
If a media library drive is being allocated, the drive may already be
allocated to another media library device that is varied on.

If I change the TAP02 resource to TAPMLB02 (which I would assume is
correct), it changes the description to:

Device description . . . . . . . . : TAP02
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *TAP

Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : *RSRCNAME <-------
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : *RSRCNAME <-------
Resource name . . . . . . . . . . : TAPMLB02 <-------

and that's when I get this message:

--00002006: The device type specified in the device description TAP02 does
not match the type associated with resource TAPMLB02.

Thanks again,

Rick