Joni,
I would do a Q volume * access=unav to see if you have any tapes marked
unavailable.  If so change them to read/write and try the backup again.
Jim Sporer

At 01:26 PM 4/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Hello!

I was notified that a server's file backup that was going directly to tape
was getting the following error messages:

     Node Name: CHSU087
Session established with server ADSMB: MVS
  Server Version 4, Release 1, Level 3.0
  Server date/time: 04/22/02   20:46:23  Last access: 04/22/02   20:44:49

Normal File-->       104,865,792 /u05/oradata/p31a/admi01a.dbf  **
Unsuccessful **
ANS1114I Waiting for mount of offline media.
Retry # 1  Normal File-->       104,865,792 /u05/oradata/p31a/admi01a.dbf
** Unsuccessful **
ANS1228E Sending of object '/u05/oradata/p31a/admi01a.dbf' failed
ANS1312E Server media mount not possible

I was also viewing the activity log and I saw the following error messages:

04/23/2002 13:08:54   ANR0525W Transaction failed for session 64616 for
node
                       CHSU087 (SUN SOLARIS) - storage media inaccessible.

04/23/2002 13:08:54   ANR0525W Transaction failed for session 64614 for
node
                       CHSU087 (SUN SOLARIS) - storage media inaccessible

The tape drives were not all in use.  The system was not in tape drive
allocation.  And the maximum mount point is 10.  Does anyone have any
suggestions as to what may be done?  The customer has tried several times
to backup this file without success.  One last question:  How do I know
what tape a file is on?  Is there a query that could tell me, for example,
what tape the above file would be located on?

Thank you in advance for any help!!!!

Joni Moyer
Associate Systems Programmer
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
(717)975-8338