VANTAGE System script: DSKIBMCC- excessive tape allocations being done.

Products

• Vantage Storage Resource Manager
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

Issue/Introduction

When the DSKIBMCC script is executed, 4 tapes are mounted each time and not 2 tapes, as expected. Is this behavior acceptable, or is there some bug in the Vantage sysparms configuration? 

X16557 61MiB - CL0
X41503 31 MiB - Cl0
X41492 61MiB - Cl1
X16570 31MiB - CL1

Environment

Vantage

Resolution

 The creator of the VISIVTHH object is called internally as part of data collection for the VISIVTCC object. This is due to the fact that VISIVTCC needs some data obtained in VISIVTHH to work.

The creator of the VISIVTHH object works similarly to the creator of the VISIVTCC object, it obtains data using BVIR.

So, the first two tapes are mounted for the VISIVTHH creator, and only the other two tapes are used in the data collection itself for the VISIVTCC object. This is why the log shows the mounting of 4 tapes instead of the expected 2, so this behavior is correct.