Georgia,

I don't know if this helps, here is a script I use to find volumes in
private status/readwrite that are empty..

select volume_name from libvolumes where status='Private' and volume_name
not in
 (select volume_name from volumes)  and volume_name not in (select
volume_name from
 libvolumes where last_use='DbBackup')

I use this script because we have 5-6 offsite stg pools, what I do is check
them in as private and then define them to a specific offsite stgpool as
needed.

It will not give me any volsers that where last used as DB backup
tapes........

Give it a shot ???

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Is there a command to use that displays the format of  a tape volume?

We did an upgrade of our tapedrives from b1a to e1a. Tapes were marked
read-only and data was moved off. If some of the tape volumes were not
marked read-only or put in read/write erroneously how can you detect which
they are?



Thanks
georgia.blair AT usaa DOT com