Lisa--I'm using a VM V2 server as well.  Getting tape handling to work
properly was pretty messy.  I'll be glad to send you my mount and deletion
execs if you want.  They are set up to work with Sterling's VMTAPE.

Something that made our life much easier is an undocumented option for
DSMSERV OPT.  DEVNOREADCHECK allows the server to ignore the RING IN/NO RING
status of the input tape.  I trust DSMSERV not to randomly write on tapes.
It was suggested by Dave Larimer, a list contributor.

Finally, the server does seem to get confused at times, altho typically when
it is very busy with reclaims, migration, backups, and you name it going on,
and will start putting out the message you saw, ANR5241E Exit Machine ...
not logged on, mount for 002353 cancelled.  Quite often when that happens,
the only thing to do is to quiesce the server and recycle it.  I assume it
is a programming/logic error that, hopefully, will be fixed in V2.

I don't have a magic answer for your problem.  I would look again at the
situation where you say that no data is passed to the server.  Altho, that
could very well be what triggers the ANR5241E msg for me, even tho it
happens very infrequently.

Jim Bohnsack
Raytheon Systems Co.
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> From:         Lisa Baas[SMTP:lbaas AT MSAC.MTSAC DOT EDU]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:52 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Reclamation problem
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> Sender:       "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Poster:       Lisa Baas <lbaas AT MSAC.MTSAC DOT EDU>
> Subject:      Reclamation problem
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> I hope this isn't a faq, but I've looked everywhere for an answer and
> searching the list archives is painfully slow...
>
> ADSM/VM V2
>
> I'm trying to run a reclamation process for the first time. The process
> starts, puts out some messages about the required tapes and starts the
> exit
> machines. Then a mount request fails because no data is passed to the exit
> machine. Here are the messages:
>
> ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 002353, storage pool ..
> (process number ..)
> ANR1044I Removable volume 002353 is required for space reclamation.
> ANR5216I CARTRIDGE 002353 is expected to be mounted (R/O).
> ANR1142I Moving data for ... on volume 002353
> ANR5230I 001: Starting Exit Machine ... to mount CARTRIDGE 002031
> ANR5204I AUTO LOGON ***  ...
> ANR5230I 002: Starting Exit Machine ... to mount CARTRIDGE 002353
> ANR5204I AUTO LOGON ***  ...
> .
> .
> ANR5241E Exit Machine ... not logged on, mount for 002353 cancelled.
>
>
> The first exit machine logon produces a mount request for the correct
> tape.
> The second exit machine logs off immediately without requesting any tapes.
> A
> trace from the exit machine shows that no parms were passed from the
> server.
> Have I missed something in my configuration? I just upgraded from v1 to v2
> but reclamation wasn't working for me in v1 either.
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> /lisa
>