It depends of the COLLOCATION mode you set.
Fs you set it on for client level, then for each client a tape is used. So
you will have at least one filling tape per client. If you even have
collocation on filespacelevel  the you get even worse.

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Andreas Buser

Tel: ++41 61 285 73 21  Fax: ++41 61 285 70 98

Email: Andreas.Buser AT Basler DOT ch

Address:
Basler Versicherungsgesellschaft
Andreas Buser
Abt. Informatik
Aeschengraben 21
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Switzerland



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Hello,
We recently added STK 9840's and I pointed a couple of tape pools to the
new devices.  After a couple of days I noticed that it looked like there
were a number of volumes in 'FILLING' status.  But the next day new volumes
would be written on and the same ones remained in "FILLING" status.  I did
change the MAXCAPACITY for the appropriate device class to 80G and am
continuing to monitor tape usage, but I would appreciate if anyone can
explain (better than the Admin Guide) how tapes are selected.  I thought
that any tape that was not "FULL" but was "FILLING" would be written on
before a new scratch volume  requested.  The server is 3.1.1.2 under OS/390
2.4, colocation is not turned on.

Thanks in advance
Dana Mitchell