TAPE VOLUME CANNOT BE RECYCLED AT THIS TIME indicates that a RECYCLE command has failed as a result of a mismatch between the indicated data sets on the tape volume volser as described in the offline control data set record (OCDS) tape table of contents record (TTOC) and the actual data sets residing on the volume.

RECYCLE PROCESSING HAS BEEN FORCED, ONLY KNOWN DATA SETS HAVE BEEN PROCESSED, indicates that a RECYCLE command with FORCE parameter has been allowed to run to completion. This mismatch between indicated data sets on the tape volume volser as described in the OCDS TTOC record and the actual data sets residing on the volume did not prevent recycle processing of known data sets.

TAPE VOLUME CANNOT BE DELETED, VALID DATA SETS MAY EXIST ON THE VOLUME, indicates a DELVOL command has failed as a result of a mismatch between the indicated data sets on the tape volume volser as described in the OCDS TTOC record and the actual data sets residing on the volume. This message is followed by an ARC0260I message.

REUSE CAPACITY, VALID BLOCKS, PCT VALID, AND NUM REC DO NOT CONTAIN VALUES CONSISTENT WITH THE TAPE MEDIA, indicates that a LIST TAPETABLEOFCONTENTS command has been issued and a mismatch between the indicated data sets on the tape volume volser as described in the OCDS TTOC record and the actual data sets residing on the volume has been found.

Without any message insert an error or a system outage has occurred while DFSMShsm has attempted to copy data sets to the tape volume volser. The result is a mismatch between the indicated data sets on the tape volume as described in the OCDS TTOC record and the actual data sets residing on the volume.