On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Fred Johanson wrote:

The Library Manager knows the owner and the last-use and the status.
The Library Client, i.e., the owner knows nothing about the volume;
there's nothing in the volhist with that volume name.  "Q vol" returns
not found.  The volume has never been used on the client.

Fred -

This general type of situation has been seen a few times in the past,
as I remember.
You may have to perform DELete VOLHistory with Type=REMote, as noted
in ADSM QuickFacts.  See past reports in the List archives.  Try
Query VOLHistory with Type=REMote to get a sense of the situation.
It might be some variant situation.  The historic Activity Log might
reveal what happened.

Something analogous occurs in ordinary processing, where a scratch
volume gets associated with a storage pool as a process is about to
take place, but that doesn't get started or is cancelled before the
first I/O, and the volume ends up in limbo.  (The following will
usually find such volumes:
Select * from VOLUMES where STATUS='EMPTY' and SCRATCH='YES' and
PENDING_DATE is NULL)

  Richard Sims