I have a strange phenomenon that occurred with one of my offsite tapes. The
tape was written on the 9th as you can see below. It was supposed to be
checked out on the morning of the 10th but it was not. All data points to it
being what it says it is yet I can't figure out why this happened. mtlib
showed the tape in FF00 status this morning, waiting for checkin, but when I
ran checkin it said it could not be assigned a status of scratch.

If I query the act log for the tape number anytime the last 4 days and I see
nothing, this is very strange.... In fact I don't even see anything in the
activity log on this tape for a week. I would have thought seeing it in q
volhist there should be something..... I'm running AIX 4.3.3 with TSM
4.2.1.7. Things have been very quiet since the .7 patch was installed.

Any ideas anyone?????

QUERY ACTLOG BEGINDATE=12/07/2001 BEGINTIME=08:00 ENDDATE=12/11/2001
ENDTIME=07:00 SEARCH=U00404 ORIGINATOR=ALL

ANR2034E QUERY ACTLOG: No match found using this criteria.

                   Volume Name: U00404
             Storage Pool Name: OFFSITE_POOL
             Device Class Name: 3590CLASS
       Estimated Capacity (MB): 18,224.6
                      Pct Util: 99.7
                 Volume Status: Full
                        Access: Offsite
        Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.3
               Scratch Volume?: Yes
               In Error State?: No
      Number of Writable Sides: 1
       Number of Times Mounted: 1
             Write Pass Number: 1
     Approx. Date Last Written: 11/09/01 08:52:39
        Approx. Date Last Read: 11/09/01 08:25:25
           Date Became Pending:
        Number of Write Errors: 0
         Number of Read Errors: 0
               Volume Location: Arcus
Last Update by (administrator): GEOFF
         Last Update Date/Time: 11/10/01 03:01:26

 Q volhist:

       Date/Time: 11/05/01 07:09:24
     Volume Type: STGDELETE
   Backup Series:
Backup Operation:
      Volume Seq:
    Device Class: 3590CLASS
     Volume Name: U00404
 Volume Location:
         Command:

       Date/Time: 11/09/01 08:24:55
     Volume Type: STGNEW
   Backup Series:
Backup Operation:
      Volume Seq:
    Device Class: 3590CLASS
     Volume Name: U00404
 Volume Location:
         Command:


Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
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