I do run Expire Inventory daily.  I did ntice that if it does not finish, in
the 3 hour window that I give it, that it starts where it left off the next
day.  But it does NOT look at the nodes at the beginning of the list again,
that day.  Kind of odd but that is what it does.

You are correct in your thoughts about status = ACTIVE.  However, with the
assurances by the client administrators (we run full backups every other
week), I deleted the tapes that should hold theses ACTIVE files with
DISCARD=YES.  I would believe it would take it off the data base.   And yes
I am curious too as to why we can do FULL backups every other week and still
have files that are 4-7 months old and ACTIVE.  I have found the following
reasons for this.
1) It was an old DB backup that was not properly expired by the client.
These ALL have DATE/TIME stamps in the file name.
2) Nodes that were renamed and the data was left to hang
3) Nodes that were actually removed but not removed from TSM
4) ?????
Does moving a node from one policy to another leave this type of data as an
ACTIVE backup?
Am I correct in my understanding that even though I went through the
DELETE.... DISCARD=YES process that TSM deleted the data from the tape but
because it was listed as ACTIVE, (for whatever hole in my process that let
that happen)  that it did not delete it from the BACKUPS DB?
Matt