If you try to label a volume if it is defined in volumes table, it will
fail even if you specify overwrite=yes. Under such case you can label it by
using dsmlabel command. Restriction is that you can not use label more that
6 characters long. So if your existing label is longer then you are stuck.
This process is unpredictable and there is no guarantee that you can get
your data back after labeling. So be careful and keep a recovery plan ready
if this trick fails.

Regards

Samiran Das




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have you tried a 'move data' against the volumes?