Synchronize a volume scratch for CA1 with OAM.

Products

• CA 1 Flexible Storage
• CA 1 Tape Management - Copycat Utility
• CA 1 Tape Management - Add-On Options

Issue/Introduction

Running a CTSSYNC utility to synchronize a scratch volume between TMC and IBM data base robot we get 

FUNCTION ---------------------- ATL ACTION ----------------------------- STATUS 
QUERY 500000 QUERY COMPLETE, VOLUME IN ROBOT 
QUERY 500000 OUT OF SYNC: TVIUSEA = P & TVILCAT = UN 

How can we correct this ? 

Environment

Release: ONE...00200-12.6-One-TAPE MANAGEMENT
Component:

Resolution

The reason of this error is displaying, is “SYNC operation failed. The ATL TCDB status x and LM status yy are different. Use IBM ISPF panels to resolve the discrepancy.” 

What we do know is that P=private, S=scratch UN=unknown. The second digit is 0=physical tape, 1=logical VTS,2=VTS logical volume being imported, and =physical CTS volume but these values  are set by IBM not CA and are in the CBRTVI macro and we can find them on the folwoing like:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.idao300/tviinfo.htm 

You can also run CTSSYNC with two control statements if the TVIUSEA=S & TVILCAT=ERR but ONLY if CA 1 says the volumes is in SCRATCH status now.

PRIVATE,vvvvvv

SCRATCH,vvvvvv