On a side note, a way I have found useful to free up a drive when the process 
wouldn't cancel is to mark the volume the drive has to unavailable in TSM.  TSM 
will immediately stop the process and free the tape.  At least that works for 
my environment of TSM on Z/OS.

Ryan Miller
 
Principal Financial Group
 
Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:28 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM, 3494, manual mode...?.


I get it!
Thanks...

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Byrne [mailto:ted.byrne AT ADELPHIA DOT NET]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 2:48 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM, 3494, manual mode...?.


Wanda,

Here is Richard Sims' recommendation in this situation:

- TSM may have to be told that the library is in manual mode. You cannot
achieve this via UPDate LIBRary: you have to define another instance of
your library under a new name, with LIBType=MANUAL. Then do UPDate DEVclass
to change your 3590 device class to use the library in manual mode for the
duration of the robotic outage.

-Ted

At 02:40 PM 3/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Any 3494 wizards out there -
>
>Something new every minute...
>Our gripper is dead (there is a part circling an airport somewhere, waiting
>to land).
>
>At first, we just switched the library into MANUAL mode, opened the doors,
>and we 2-legged robots have been responding to the mounts on the library
>manager console.
>
>Then a drive also died.  TSM was waiting for the mount on that drive, which
>cannot be satisfied, process will not cancel.
>The only way I know out of that is to bounce TSM, which I did.
>
>When TSM came back up, it says the library is UNAVAILABLE.
>
>Now the library is still doing its manual-mode thing for the other system
>attached to it, so I ASSUME this is because the library was not in a
>"normal" state when TSM came back up.
>
>So, is there anything I can do to get TSM to talk to the library again
while
>it is in MANUAL mode?
>
>Thanks
>Wanda