  COPY to tape fails? 
 The Question is:
 
Is there anything like an "image activation within process session" limit?
We run a fiche job that copies (DCL COPY) about 15,000 files to tape. It
will die consistently at around 10,000 files into the run. Its not the file.
I think the program retrieves
all of these file names, puts them into a file and formats a command line
for each one. We've used different tape drives, cleaned the drives between
tapes, increased the process quotas (ran faster,but same result), ran with
only one user on the system, an
d used different user accounts, all with the same result. Someone here
recalls something like an image activation limit. We have a 1000 4/233,
128MB memory, OpenVMS 7.1. thanks
 
 The Answer is:
 
  The OpenVMS Wizard requires the EXACT error message text that the
  failure produced -- per the Ask The Wizard rules, "please remember
  to include ... the full text of all messages received."
 
  There is no image activation limit in OpenVMS, though there is a user
  quota that can be enabled that will limit process CPU consumption.
 
  Without the exact text of the error message, all further discussion of
  the problem is little more than supposition -- symptoms similar to those
  reported here can be conceivably be produced by anything from a hardware
  problem to a simple attempt to write more data into the tape media than
  it can hold.
 
  Please contact the Compaq Customer Support Center.  Expect to be asked
  for the exact error message, the exact COPY command used, the model of
  the tape drive in use, the particular type of media, and potentially
  for the contents of the error log (retrieved via the DECevent DIAGNOSE
  command).
 
