Synchronize a volume scratch for CA1 with OAM.

Products

• CA 1 Flexible Storage

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 this be corrected?

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.” 

The  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 CA1 and are in the CBRTVI macro under the  TCDB USE ATTRIBUTE CONSTANTS .

See the following link:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=interface-tape-volume-information-cbrtvi-macro

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