This is a problem with other platforms. I just had a 34 hour outage
from this. Level 3.7.4 supposedly fixes it, and allows the tape to be
read as long as you do not use the GENERICTAPE driver. Actually, they
said they thought that was fixed also, but I was using the Gresham
Utilities ATDD driver, and it still did not work with the GENERICTAPE
driver. The IBM'er admitted that they had not tested the fix with ATDD.
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ehland Ann J wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As an FYI, I wanted to let you know that there is a known problem with
> backing up the TSM Version 3, Release 7, Level 3.0 (not ADSM!) database and
> trying to restore it.
> While TSM is able to WRITE the database backup to multiple cartridges, it
> appears that TSM is unable to READ multiple cartridges during the restore.
> I believe the end-of-file/volume mark is getting spanned to the subsequent
> tape, therefore when you try to read the subsequent tape, you will encounter
> a media error. It is not a problem with the cartridge, rather with the TSM
> logic. Fixtest 18 is supposed to address this, but is currently not GA.
> Please note: this is only an issue with restoring the database and NOT when
> doing a LOAD database.
> Also, the ADSM server we were trying to restore is on MVS so I don't know if
> this applies to all platforms.
> Ann...
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