When I am aborting a job which is reading from or writing to tape I always use the ABORTIO command to each tape device.  The job will abort on its own


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>>> Per Ostberg <[log in to unmask]> 05/28/99 07:00AM >>>
your job might be 'waiting for' the tape-device. did you try to dismount
tape/load a new (without sensitive data ;-)/abortio <tape-dev>?

hth
/per

> hi,
>
> I ran into a problem, when I tried to abort a backup
> job.   The stdlist is telling me that its releasing
> the locked files, but its been in the que for about 12
> hours.  Is there another way I can abort this job
> without using the abortjob(already tried) command?  I
> really don't want to reboot the box, if I don't have
> to.  I build this job using RoadRunner 4.7.1, and my
> OS is mpe/ix 5.5 patch 6 .
>
> Thank-you
>
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