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To add to Rob's comments. It's really Media and Storage Extensions that
cause you to need the volume name, and BRMS fills that in for you in most
cases. The standard SAV*** commands don't have BRMS fronting them with
whatever tape volume BRMS chooses, so you have to tell it what tape to
operate on.

I'm betting everything is else is fine.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 7:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: tape cartridge categories

Well, since you've tried the command WRKMLMBRM I am going under the
assumption that you have BRMS. BRMS is all about the volume id.

I have not used DSPTAPCGY since I started using BRMS. There are a lot of
those type of commands I have written down when we first went to tape
libraries but didn't use BRMS.

Just to verify that the tape library can read you can try WRKMEDBRM
TYPE(*ACT) LOC(TAPMLB01) Once you find an active tape DSPTAP DEV(TAPMLB01)
VOL(XXXXXX) ENDOPT(*REWIND) replacing the x's by a valid volume id.

You may want to look at the SAVLIBBRM command versus the SAVLIB command But
if you want to stick with the SAVLIB command instead of using *MOUNTED for
the volume id try entering one of the volume names currently in the library.

Rob Berendt
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From: "Dave W" <ldwopt@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/13/2015 08:03 AM
Subject: tape cartridge categories
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Good morning



I got called into work on this to figure out what is wrong.



We had a tape library go bad and replaced the complete unit. It was varied
off before the swap and after the swap it was varied on. ALL looked ok.



The backup last night aborted so I have been looking at it today. It is
configured as 3580 library with a 3581 tape drive.



When I do a WRKMLMBRM the loaded tapes show the tapes are in *share400
category and one tape is Mounted



When I do WRKMLBSTS is shows the tap library as varied on



It shows the tap01 as operational and unprotected.



IF I do a DSPTAPCGY it shows many categories tied to the Serial number or
system name.



When I try and do a SAVLIB LIBA TAPMLB01 I get a CPF3794 I do an
F10
and it states the *MOUNTED is not correct



I have never worked with cartridge types before. How do I reset or
allocate
the cartridge to the new drive?





Any help would be appreciated



Thanks

Dave Willenborg

FNTS

Omaha NE




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