You shouldn't need to retrieve the tape. On our copypool tapes
with this issue, we made them readw, made the fix and changed it back to
offsite without ever bringing the tape back onsite. The tape then shows
up as "EMPTY" and should be automatically requested back onsite when the
reuse delay is reached.

        Then again, the tape is actually empty at this point, so
requesting it back now should be no issue.

Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Whitlock, Brett
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:18 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: copy stg pool volume

Thanks Ben and Doug.  I'm having the tape retrieved from the vault. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Ben Bullock
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:08 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] copy stg pool volume

        Happened to us on some older tapes that were in copypools, you
need to audit the volume. I have a simple script that cleans up tapes
that you think have a problem. It runs some other commands, but the most
important is the audit vol command.

                          Name: FIX_VOL
                   Line Number: Description
                       Command: q vol $1
                       Command: q content $1 count=10
                       Command: update vol $1 access=readw
                       Command: audit vol $1 fix=yes
                       Command: q vol $1
                       Command: update vol $1 access=offsite


Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Whitlock, Brett
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:01 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: copy stg pool volume

Ok Here's a fun one.  5.1.5 server on z/os
 
I am doing some housecleaning.  I have a copy pool that used to go to
3490 tapes. Then we created a pool that goes to 9840 tapes.  I'm trying
to get rid of the 3490 pool.  
first, I did a backup stg pool from my inhouse stg  to the copy pool on
9840's Next, I ran a series of delete volumes discarddata=yes Now there
is just one tape left When I try to delete the volume discarddata=yes it
fails and says there is data on the tape When I do a query volume it
says the volume is full When I do a query con it says no match found
When I do a move data it says volume is empty
 
What am I doing wrong?
 
Brett