This worked!  I was able to checkin/checkout 7 of the 12 'missing' volumes (it 
couldn't find 5 of them). That tells me that they are no longer in the library 
so now I will request a report from our offsite storage vendor for the 
remaining tapes.  I suspect that they made it there after all.

Thank you very much for you help Wanda.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Wanda Prather
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:20 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Removing volumes that TSM doesn't see

The quick and dirty is to do as you suggested below:

Run a checkin with SEARCH=YES STATUS=PRIVATE;
then run a checkout for each volume with REMOVE=YES.

It's OK to do that.

It won't change the TSM volume status (you can display before and after
status with Q VOL xxxxxx F=D for stgpool volumes, status should be OFFSITE),
or the DRM status (you can display before and after with Q DRM xxxxxx,
status should probably be VAULT).

Kudos to you for filling in!




On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jon Adams <Jon.Adams AT premera DOT com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> TSM successfully checked out our list of 20 offsite volumes, but failed to
> send 8 of them to the CAP (CAP was full of incoming scratch volumes, I
> think). Now, all I know is the volume names that I need and their slot
> numbers, but since TSM doesn't see them, I can't figure out how to get the
> library robot to remove them.  How can I tell our STK L700 (or TSM) to
> remove them?  Obviously, I do not want to visually look for these things.
>  ;-)
>
> Thinking of getting TSM to audit the library and check them back in, but am
> afraid of changing the status of the volumes.  The TSM Admin is on vacation
> and I am desperately trying to keep anyone from calling him, including me.
>
>
>
> With regards,
>
> Jon R. Adams
> Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace WA
>
>
> "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
> judgment"
>        - Will Rogers
>