Thanks - the odd thing about _my_ problem was that the
reclamation hung well *before* any of my nightly schedules
started.  I'm reclaiming onsite volumes, too, and everything was
right there in the library.  So - no easy answers, unless one
wants to point to the "aggregate" problem.

Of course, once I halted the server I then had to convince ADSM
to talk to the library (which involved freeing the drives), but
that's a minor detail.  I'm currently finishing up the offending
reclamation, and everything looks fine.


Pat Wilson
paw AT dartmouth DOT edu

>  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
>
>  ---------------------- Forwarded by Virginia L Hysock/HI/CSC on 10/29/98
>  02:23 PM ---------------------------
>
>
>  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