That would depend on your library.  However, you can check those tapes
you recently checked in against those you cannot now find and if the
numbers are different lengths you have the volser number issue.  

I have two 3584 libraries and they are accessed by going to:
http://libip

I'm assuming your library has a web interface if it's an IBM Library.

Oh, you can also check in all the "unavailable" tapes by setting the
search=yes and status=private, then you should be able to mark them
readwrite again.  
If you're library sees them, you should be able to see them via TSM.
That just made me think.  When they added the licenses there's a
possiblity your slot numbers changed (especially if you added slots slot
057 is now 1057, etc.) so that the volumes are visible, they're just not
where they're supposed to be.  Try the Checkin (do on one or two volumes
to test), and if that doesn't work, physically move them out of the
Library, and then check them in via the IO slots.  Making sure to check
them in as Private.  

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
ashish sharma
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:55 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] unexpected result from audit library

Hello Howard,

Yes , they intervened as we didnt had the licenses for all the slots we
have
in the library and we asked for aditional number of licenses. Could you
please let me know how can i check volser length set in the web
interface?

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Howard Coles
<Howard.Coles AT ardenthealth DOT com>wrote:

> That's what I would expect at this point either the volume serial
> length, or the licenses aren't right.  I would check the volser length
> set in the web interface with the volume names you have in TSM.  I'll
> bet the length is different.  Then I'd call IBM and yell till someone
> came out and corrected my problem.  Why were they messing with the
> licenses on your library?  I wonder if you got choked down to the
number
> of slots or something along those lines.  I've had problems with IBM
> assuming they can just get in and do things myself.  If they didn't
> contact you, or alert anyone that they were going to be doing this I'd
> be on their case hard.
>
> See Ya'
> Howard Coles Jr.
> John 3:16!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
> km
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:07 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] unexpected result from audit library
>
> They didnt perhaps change the length of volser (i.e. if LTO generation
> should be a part of the volume serial or not)? That would explain not
> finding any already checked in volumes.
>
> On 02/01, ashish sharma wrote:
> > Hello Howard,
> >
> > Yes i received a lot of messages " cant find tapes in slot". I just
> received
> > a mail from local system admin saying IBM did some intervention on
the
> > library for installing liocenses and i suspect that may have caused
> some
> > malfunctioning in library which is unable to find the tapes which
were
> > already present.
> >
>



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Ashish Sharma
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