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Now ,if the restore was to be done from another tape with volume id EA0284 and operator had loaded it to the tape library,will the status show as INSERTED instead of AVAILABLE in the above screen?

For that system they will show as AVAILABLE but if that tpae library shares drives with another iSeries machine then those tapes added to the second iSeries machine via the ADDMLMBRM command would show as INSERTED when you look at the WRKMLMBRM command the iSeries machine. You can ginore thiose tapes as the system you are looking at does. It just lists them for all systems.

The step 3 Restore is absolutely correct. The tape library will pick the tape device that is assigned to it and will automatically load and unload the tape from the drive when done.

Hope this helps.

Lovemyi

Just to make sure that I understand correctly what you have explained,can you please confirm if following is true:

1.On Work with Media Library Media,the follwoing tapes are currently shown:

Media library . . . . . . :  TAPMLB03                         
 Position to . . . . . . . .               Starting characters 
                                                               
 Type options, press Enter.                                    
   1=Add MLB media      2=Work with media    5=Initialize      
   6=Change category    7=Eject   8=Mount    9=Demount       

 Media            ---BRM Information---            
Opt Volume Type  Category   Media Class   Expired  Status    
                                                             
    EA0266       *SHARE400  ULTRIUM3       *YES    Available 
    EA0277       *SHARE400  ULTRIUM3       *YES    Available 
    EA0278       *SHARE400  ULTRIUM3       *YES    Available 
    EA0279       *SHARE400  ULTRIUM3       *YES    Available 
    EA0281       *SHARE400  ULTRIUM3       *YES    Available 
    EA0283       *SHARE400  ULTRIUM3       *YES    Available 

Now ,if the restore was to be done from another tape with volume id EA0284 and operator had loaded it to the tape library,will the status show as INSERTED instead of AVAILABLE in the above screen?

2.To start the restore from tape EA0284,I vary on TAPMLB03 as shown below(thru WRKMLBSTS):

Device/                                                      Job  
 Opt     Resource     Status                 Allocation             name 
       TAPMLB03       VARIED ON                                          
         TAP03        OPERATIONAL            UNPROTECTED                 

3.Finally for the restore I run the following command:

===>

RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(DBSLIB) DEV(TAPMLB03) VOL(EA0284) SEQNBR(1698) MBROPT(*ALL) ALWOBJDIF(*ALL) RSTLIB(DBSLIBXX) OUTPUT(*PRINT)   

Coding TAPMLB03 and EA0284 will ensure that the tape is automatically picked up from ‘Work with media library Media’screen in step1 ? Or do I have to use any option like option 8(Mount) specifically to Mount the tape EA0284 to the tape drive TAP03 ?

Kindly guide me thru .Many thanks for your help

Hughes