CA View - View Tape Failing with IOS000I and SARTPI43 Messages

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

After a migration, the client found they had a few View tapes, at the new site, that received the following messages:

 . IOS000I ...
 . SARTPI43  I/O error positioning tape

What would be the means to fix the tapes?
 

Environment

CA View - All Releases

Resolution

After running the below CA View utility jobs, the client was able to determine that their tapes were, in fact, good: 

- First, run the following SARPAC REPORT JCL: 

//XXXXXXXX JOB ... 
//SARPAC01 EXEC PGM=SARPAC,PARM='view_hlq,REPORT' <=== Modify DB name 
//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VIEW.CVDELOAD <=== Modify, if used 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* 
//SYSIN DD DUMMY 
// 

. . Note: The above will provide a list of tapes that View believes it to own. 

- Then, run the following SARTSLST JCL, for each tape in question: 

//XXXXXXXX JOB ... 
//SARTSLST EXEC PGM=SARTSLST,PARM='view_hlq,nnnnn' <=== Modify DB name and Tapeseq # 
//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VIEW.CVDELOAD <=== Modify, if used 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* 
// 

. . Note: nnnnn above is the Tape Sequence number, as found in the leftmost column on the SARPAC report, as the T00nnnnn may or may not match the noted sequence number. 

- Then, run the following SARTCP tapemap (//TAPEIN ... only), for each tape in question: 

//XXXXXXXX JOB ... 
//SARTCPMP EXEC PGM=SARTCP 
//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VIEW.CVDELOAD <=== Modify, if used 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 
//TAPEIN DD DISP=OLD,DSN=view_hlq.SARTAPE.T00nnnnn <=== Modify DSN 
//SYSIN DD DUMMY 
// 

. . Note: nnnnn is the 5-digit sequence number of the tape, as kept within View. 

- Compare the reports, to see what reports View considers active and to be on the tape, to what is actually on the tape.