I have never seen it used except with DRM.
If you have DRM implemented, issue the command:

Q DRMEDIA xxxxxx f=d

where xxxxxx is the name of a volume in your vault.

The ORMSTATE options correspond to the DRM STATE shown in the  Q DRMEDIA
output.

You would not need to use UPDATE VOLHISTORY ORMSTATE= in normal
circumstances; normally MOVE DRMEDIA does all the setting and tracking for
you.  I have only ever used ORMSTATE to patch up things when there were
problems that caused tapes to be in the wrong DRM state than what they
should be.
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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
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: Rupp Thomas (Illwerke) [SMTP:thomas.rupp AT ILLWERKE DOT AT]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:00 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      ORMSTATE in UPDATE VOLHISTORY
>
> Hi *SM-ers,
>
> does anyone know what the ORMSTATE in the UPDATE VOLHISTORY
> command stands for and how it should be used?
>
> Kind regards
> Thomas Rupp
> Vorarlberger Illwerke AG
> MAIL:   thomas.rupp AT illwerke DOT at
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