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Bruno count how many scratch volumes that stgpool is CURRENTLY using. Is it the same as the MAXSCRATCH value? If so, increase it. It doesn't matter how much free space you have if maxscratch has been hit.
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thanks for the reply umur, I think this is indeed the problem, as the Ops guys do seem to checking scratch tapes, so now i have found the reason why the tapes are not becoming available again to TSM......hmmm....and are staying in an unavailable state. So actlog reports the following error and we run out of scratch tapes:If it's a label problem, the tape was probably checked in instead of labeled. Check it out and re-label it.
If this is indeed the problem, then TSM won't be able to check the tape out by itself, you'll have to choose "remove=no" and "checklabel=no", and remove the tape from the library yourself.