John Price wrote:

Try adding pct_reclaim to your query, this is the number used in the
selections. You'll probably find that 432 and 451 show pct_reclaim
at 97% or greater. I don't know about AIX, but on my NT system,
these percentages aren't very accurate.


>
> Config: ADSM 3.1.1.5 on AIX 4.3.2.0
>
> In order to start a offsite reclamation at the correct percentage, we issue a 
> select command which is displayed with its output below:
>
> ANS8000I Server command: 'select volume_name,pct_utilized from volumes where 
> pct_utilized  > 0 and access='OFFSITE' order by pct_utilized asc'
>
> VOLUME_NAME         PCT_UTILIZED
> ------------------  ------------
> 432                          4.0
> 404                          4.2
> 454                          4.4
> 436                          4.6
> 448                          4.8
> 409                          4.9
> 451                          5.0
> 424                          5.3
> 438                          5.5
> blah blah blah
>
> We then set the reclamation threshhold to 97%, and the server began 
> reclaiming 432 and 451.
> Could someone please explain how those two tapes, and only those two tapes, 
> were selected?
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