I agree with the prior comments.

The way to track your scratch volumes is this:

q libv libname *

That will show you all the volumes in your library that are in SCRATCH
status, regardless of whether they were formerly stgpool tapes or DBB tapes.

You can always pipe the cmd output to something clever if you want to
process the output differently, e.g.

q libv libname * | grep Scratch

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilton Tina [SMTP:HiltonT AT TCE DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 7:30 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Antwort: ADSM DB backups - how to expire?
>
> I think the designation stgdelete says it was deleted from a stgpool,
> which
> your db backups are not.  I don't believe you can change it to this status
> and your only option is to delete them.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig McAllister [SMTP:Craig_McAllister AT EUROPE36.MOT DOT COM]
> > Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 6:07 AM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: Antwort: ADSM DB backups - how to expire?
> >
> > Sabine,
> >         As I undestand it, this simply deletes the DBB entries from the
> > Volume History file.
> >         I want to do something more subtle; I'm trying to change their
> > status from BACKUPFULL (ie. ADSM DB backup) to STGDELETE, so I can track
> > them as scratch tapes.
> >         This is quite important to me as I have a very small library,
> and
> > tape operations are time-intensive (Tapemonkey) jobs.
> >
> >
> > #Hy Craig,
> > #
> > #you can use this simple command to delete old DB-Backup-Volumes from
> the
> > #VOLUME History.
> > #
> > #
> > #delete volhist todate=today-8 type=dbbackup
> > #
> > #
> > #This Administrative-Schedule runs bevor the DB Backup each Day.
> > #
> > #
> > #
> > #With best regards
> > #
> > #Sabine Rettenberger
> > #
> > #Sabine.rettenberger AT wolf-heiztechnik DOT de