Thanks I'll give it a try.

Gene


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I've done it on a 3575.

If I remember right, the steps were:

Set the drive offline to TSM
Used tapeutil to mount a scratch volume
Ran the mksysb using the /dev/rmtX
Used tapeutil to eject the volume
Updated the volume in TSM
Set the drive back online