I'm thinking perhaps the library doesn't think the tape is in it.  Can you
see that tape when you issue a q libvol command?  If not, and you think the
tape is in the library, issue these two commands:

audit library libname checklabel=barcode
checkin libvol libname search=yes checklabel=barcode status=scratch
checkin libvol libname search=yes checklabel=barcode status=private

Make sure and issue the two checkout commands in this order.  If you reverse
them, scratch tapes will be marked private.  Private tapes won't be marked
scratch.

I'll bet this fixes it.

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