It sounds like a problem at the API level between TSM and Oracle, either
upgrade yr RMAN module, or the TSM Client API, or both... it seems to me
that they don't hook up appropriately. Do you receive any errors on the
dsierror.log file ?
if yes... you might want to troubleshoot them and you will probably find
the end.
Finally, I trust that all your management classes/copygroup stuff are set
properly...

Good luck...

Othonas


"<James> <healy>" <James.Healy2 AT AXACS DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/16/2001
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Othonas thanks for your reply thats exactly what I was looking for but I
guess I still have a problem.

My DBAs run this command  change backuppiece tag 'TRIB20001215' delete.
     and it says the files are deleted from ORacle . I run expiration,
expiration completes and yet the files are still in TSM

Can anyone see if I'm still missing something or have I encountered a bug?




"Othonas Xixis" <othonas AT US.IBM DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/16/2001 
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*sm> show  versions  nodename  *

Brgds,

Othonas


"<James> <healy>" <James.Healy2 AT AXACS DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/16/2001
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How do I verify the state of the objects?




"Michel Engels" <Michel.Engels AT DEVOTEAM DOT BE>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 01/15/2001
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You should verify the state of the objects. After the deletion of the files
via
RMAN the state should change from active to inactive. Be sure your RetO
value is
set to 0 otherwise the files will be kept for some time depending your
settings
in the managementclass. When the files become inactive, the retention is
set to
0 and the expiration on the server has run the files should disappear.

Hope this helps,

Michel





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i have a question about verifying the deletion of rman data.
i'd like to know how anyone verifies that old versions of rman files are
getting deleted.
My DBAs say they are running the commands to expire old versions but I
don't see it happening
Are there any commands that I could erify this with.
I've checked q occ and the number of files does not decrease for that rman
client.