There are cases where the STGNEW and STGDELETE records can be useful to
figure out what you need to audit and clean up AFTER you have done a restore
of the ADSM DB to a back level (which hopefully you will NEVER need to
do...).

That's the only thing I know of that those records can be used for.

So I delete my STGNEW and STGDELETE records that are older than my oldest DB
backup tape, since that's as far back as I could go in a recovery situation.


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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Huff [SMTP:khuff AT WCF-UTAH DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:12 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Records in the VOLHISTORY file.
>
> We are running ADSM V3R1 on OS/390 2.4
>
> In the documentation for the DELETE VOLHISTORY command
> the ADSM V3R1 MVS Admin Ref says:
> "Use the DELETE VOLHISTORY command to delete
> sequential volume history information collected by the
> server when the information is no longer needed."
>
> I understand the purpose of the TYPE=DBB records
> in the ADSM VOLHISTORY file and that they can be
> deleted when they refer to obsolete database backups.
> What about the  other records , e.g. those  with
> TYPE=STGNEW or TYPE=STGDELETE, etc?
> When is it safe to delete these records?