Re: BRMS fails again mysteriously

Probably not the same issue, but I've had similar where the tape library
couldn't access the tapes at the front of the drive. It turned out the
server above the library in the rack had been moved, and a threaded bolt
had got wedged between the two, creasing the cover and pinching it,
preventing the final few inches of travel of the cassette mover!. All tapes
except the front set were accessible. Took me a while to figure out what
was happening - ended up using a torch to watch inside the library! Some
backups worked, and others failed - all depending on whether they wanted a
tape from that front set!

Regards, Martin

On 3 December 2017 at 18:18, Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Another question about the curse of my existence, BRMS.

The job starts and fails:

12/02/17 21:18:15 BRM1411 10 *SAVSECDTA and *SAVCFG issued for control
group BRMSMTH. Q1ACSS BRMSOFR *BKU
12/02/17 21:18:15 BRM4201 10 Change to media controls
successful. Q1ACST BRMSOFR *BKU
12/02/17 21:18:15 BRM4201 10 Change to media controls
successful. Q1ACST BRMSOFR *BKU
12/02/17 21:18:16 BRM1457 10 Starting SAVSECDTA to devices
TAPMLB01. Q1ACCFG BRMSOFR *BKU
12/02/17 21:18:20 CPF3794 70 Save or restore operation ended
unsuccessfully. Q1ACCFG BRMSOFR *BKU
12/02/17 21:18:22 BRM1820 99 Control group BRMSMTH type *BKU ended
abnormally. Q1AC0BK BRMSOFR *BKU

There is an error in QSYSOPR log:

Message . . . . : No media of class ULTRIUM3 is available at
location
TAPMLB01. (C
G)
Cause . . . . . : No media of class ULTRIUM3 exists or is available

for

the
operation to use at location TAPMLB01.

There are lots of Ultrium 3 tapes in the tape library in *EXP state,

e.g,:

EVR480 *EXP 10/21/17 11/25/17 TAPMLB01 11/22/17 ULTRIUM3
EVR486 *EXP 11/15/17 11/23/17 TAPMLB01 11/14/17 ULTRIUM3

etc.

The device is varied on, yes I checked.

What does this piece of unspeakable dross want from me this time?

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