Well, at least I can answer this one!
Look at the properties for the storage pool this volume belongs to.
Look at the field called REUSEDELAY, which you apparently have set to "n"
days.

When a volume is empty, ADSM leaves it in "pending" state for "n" days as
specified in REUSEDELAY.
Then the volume will automatically go back to scratch.

The "pending" delay is there so that if you want to be able to go back and
get data off tapes should you do a data base restore to an earlier time,
ADSM makes sure the tape is not written over for "n" days.







> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:MRemeta AT SELIGMANDATA DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 4:19 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Volume status
>
> Hello all, I did a move data on a volume and now it's state is pending.
> What
> does that mean? I tried doing another move volume but ADSM says there is
> no
> data on that volume.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark Remeta
> Seligman Data Corp.
> 100 Park Avenue
> New York, NY 10017
> (212)716-2810