Are you using a Library Manager?



    If so, you need to remove the volume history for that volume by typing
this command on the library manager instance:



del volhistory todate=today T00015 force=yes





     That should get rid of all associated volume history transactions.



   Jim Neal

   Sr. TSM Administrator

   IS&T Storage and Backup Group

   U.C. Berkeley



+++  All opinions expressed herein are solely my own and do not necessarily
represent the opinion of U.C. Berkeley  +++







-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:34 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] rarely, tapes become logically unusable?



Hi, there.



I have a small collection of tapes which appear to have become

uncorrectably unusable.  They were part of a server which has been

decomissioned; now









tsm: CTRL>UPDATE LIBVOLUME 3592LIB T00015 status=private owner=GLMAIL

ANR9787E The owner name specified is not defined to this server.

ANS8001I Return code 11.





tsm: CTRL>UPDATE LIBVOLUME 3592LIB T00015 status=private owner=blargh

ANR8969E The owner of volume T00015 can not be updated to owner BLARGH.

ANS8001I Return code 27.





So, somewhere in its black little heart, TSM remembers what server

that tape went with, depite the fact that the server has been off

since 2005.  On the one hand this is good: it prevents me from

accidentally overwriting tapes.  On the other hand, it's now

preventing me from deliberately overwriting tapes.



What do I do?  Ideally, I'd like to express to the server something

like 'No really, call that blank again, I'd like to reuse it'.

Relabel it, force=yes, checkin=scratch?





Any ideas?



- Allen S. Rout