Try to update the access of those volumes to onsite retrieve:

move drm TSM023 tostate=onsiteretr (if it's a DRM volume)

Or just update the volume to readwrite instead of offsite.

Then try checking them in as scratch.

HTH,

Mike Bantz

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight McCann [mailto:dwight AT TRIXIE.ISC.UCSB DOT EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:39 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Returning a Reclaimed Offsite Copypool Volume to the Library
Scratch Pool?

I am running TSM 5.1.8.3 on W2K. I have several tape volumes that I have
reclaimed from Offsite Copypool storage.  When I attempt to do a CHECKIN to
return them to the Scratchpool TSM does not allow it:

tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1>q vol tsm023

Volume Name                  Storage         Device
Estimated       Pct      Volume
                             Pool Name       Class Name
Capacity      Util      Status
                                                                 (MB)
------------------------     -----------     ----------
---------     -----     --------
TSM023                       COPYPOOL        LTO2
0.0       0.0      Empty

tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1>q vol tsm023 f=d

                   Volume Name: TSM023
             Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL
             Device Class Name: LTO2
       Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
                      Pct Util: 0.0
                 Volume Status: Empty
                        Access: Offsite
        Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0
               Scratch Volume?: Yes
               In Error State?: No
      Number of Writable Sides: 1
       Number of Times Mounted: 14
             Write Pass Number: 1
     Approx. Date Last Written: 10/09/2003 06:47:24
        Approx. Date Last Read: 09/27/2003 06:35:55
           Date Became Pending:
        Number of Write Errors: 0
         Number of Read Errors: 0
               Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator): DWIGHT
         Last Update Date/Time: 12/16/2003 12:11:14


tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1>checkin libv lb1.1.0.5 tsm023 status=scratch ANR8443E
CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume TSM023 in library LB1.1.0.5 cannot be assigned a
status of SCRATCH.
ANS8001I Return code 12.

The explanation of ANR84423E says that it is not allowed because there might
be data on the tape, but TSM clearly knows that there is no data on the
tape.  In the Admin Guide it says that volumes defined in a Storage Pool
cannot be checked as Scratch. Is the correct way to get this volume back
into the Scratch Pool to delete it from the storage pool and then do the
Checkin? This tape was originally moved to the COPYPOOL from SCRATCH.
Neither the message nor the message explanation gives the explicit reason
that this volume cannot be made scratch.

OTOH, can I do a Checkin with Status=Private, Update the volume to readwrite
and simply have TSM use it before requesting a new tape from the Scratch
Pool?

--
Dwight McCann
Computer and Network Technologist, UCSB Info Systems & Computing
Dwight.McCann AT isc.ucsb DOT edu, Dwight AT DwightMcCann DOT com
http://borg.isc.ucsb.edu/dmm/  - office: 805-893-3113