Re: Tape hardware resources

[rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

I'm sorry - here's a correction - I was playing around and things have changed.

> What troubles are you having varying on the devices?

With these settings, my vary on error is:

Device descriptions look like this (differences marked <-----)

Device description . . . . . . . . :   TAPMLB02
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . :   *MLB

Device class . . . . . . . . . . . :   *TAP
Resource name  . . . . . . . . . . :   TAPMLB02
Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   3582
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :   001


Device description . . . . . . . . :   TAP02
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . :   *TAP

Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   3580
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :   002
Resource name  . . . . . . . . . . :   TAP02        <----------

When varying TAP02 on with this, it fails with:

Cause . . . . . :   The device resource is currently in use by object TAPMLB02
  type *DEVD. If the object name and type are blanks, either the resource is
  in use by the Dedicated Service Tools (DST), another client, or the data is
  not available.
     If a media library drive is being allocated, the drive may already be
  allocated to another media library device that is varied on.

If I change the TAP02 resource to TAPMLB02 (which I would assume is
correct), it changes the description to:

Device description . . . . . . . . :   TAP02
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . :   *TAP

Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   *RSRCNAME   <-------
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :   *RSRCNAME   <-------
Resource name  . . . . . . . . . . :   TAPMLB02    <-------

and that's when I get this message:

--00002006: The device type specified in the device description TAP02 does
 not match the type associated with resource TAPMLB02.

Thanks again,

Rick