Pat,

     I'm on a 3.1.1.3 MVS server, and I have had the same problem since
upgrading from 2.1.  I opened a ETR with IBM on this a while back.  They
didn't get very far with it, but we think we've figured out our problem.
The reclamation process that always hung was one for offsite volumes.  It
appears as though the process was hanging if it was running at the time we
happened to execute an admin schedule to update the access of the offsite
volumes.  We got around it by not starting the reclamation until just after
we update the access status.

     By the way .... the only way to get it un-hung (??) is like everyone
else mentioned - by recycling the server.

                              Ginny

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Virginia L Hysock/HI/CSC
10/29/98 02:24 PM

To:   Virginia L Hysock/HI/CSC@CSC
cc:
Subject:

Pat Wilson wrote:
> I'm running v3.1.1.2 on AIX 4.2.1.  I have one 7337 (DLT) tape
> library with 2 drives.  Have had trouble with tape pool reclamation
> interfering with the scheduled migrations in the past, so now run it
> manually.
>
> Started one yesterday, which looked like it should finish well before the
> nightly stuff.  It didn't, and now appears to be stuck; both tapes are
> still mounted and marked "IN USE", but no progress is being made.  I've
> tried to cancel the process, but it won't go away.  I find _nothing_ in
the
> activity log or any of the error logs to indicate what's happened.  The
> tape volumes haven't recorded any errors, the db and log reports look
fine,
> and both db and log have plenty of free space.
>
> Two questions: how do I get the reclamation process to die, and what
could
> have happened to cause this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat Wilson
> paw AT dartmouth DOT edu