What Dwight was writing reminded me of another cute (?) problem that I saw a
few weeks ago:

We had a tape (vol A) being reclaimed, with one file spanning on another volume
(Vol B). for some reasons, Vol B was marked as unavailable. Reclamation of Vol
A
started, but was interrupted with error messages when ADSM discovered that it
needed Vol B to continue. ADSM aborted the reclaim process,... and rescheduled
it one minute later. One minute later, Vol A was asked again, ADSM discovered
that it needed vol B that was not available, aborted the process, and
rescheduled it one minute later. One minute later,... etc, etc, etc.

It carried on like that for a whole night.

I had a good laugh the next morning. (Luckily we are not in production... yet.)

As anybody seen anything similar ?

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