Thanks Sander,

What if the Tapes are in NotMountable status? And we are not
using DRM?

Thanks Sander

Sander te Riet Scholten wrote:

> Hello,
>
> If you use DRM, follow the steps below:
>
> If the database tapes are in status MOUNTABLE, you need to checkout those
> tapes, after the checkout the tapes will become VAULTRETRIEVE immediately.
> For some reason DB-tapes that are in the library will NOT become SCRATCH
> automatically. You need to checkout/checkin those tapes for them to become
> SCRATCH.
>
> Regards,
> Sander
>
> Timothy Hughes <Timothy.Hughes AT OIT.STATE.NJ DOT US>
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> 12/14/2004 03:14 PM
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> Re: DBtape won't go to scratch status
>
> Richard,
>
> The Dbbackups are being pruned, see the following.
>
> We have Delete Volhistory set
> Schedule Name DELETE_VOLHIST_DBDACK
> Description -
> Command delete volhistory type=dbbackup todate=today-14
> Priority 5
> Start date 2002-06-18
> Start time 08:57:00
> Duration 1
> Duration units HOURS
> Period 1
> Period units DAYS
> Day of Week ANY
> Expiration -
> Active? YES
> Last Update Date/Time 2004-04-28 07:36:44.000000
> Last Update by (administrator)
> Managing profile -
>
> The date on the tape shows 12/23/03 it show have been
> pruned a long time ago.
>
> Don, We have Reclamation set. I have not tried running a move data yet
>
> Schedule Name TAPE_RECLAIM_ON
> Description reclaim tapes
> Command UPD STG TAPEPOOL RECLAIM=20
> Priority 5
> Start date 2002-06-17
> Start time 09:00:00
> Duration 12
> Duration units HOURS
> Period 1
> Period units DAYS
> Day of Week ANY
> Expiration -
> Active? YES
> Last Update Date/Time 2004-12-03 15:15:17.000000
> Last Update by (administrator)
> Managing profile -
>
> Thanks Richard, Don and Jin
>
> Richard Sims wrote:
>
> > On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Not sure If I wrote about this one before, I do know I had this
> > > problem before but was never able to get it resolved.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a couple tapes that are in  Dbackup and I would like to change
> > > to
> > > scratch status I tried using  update library volume using the TSM Gui
> > > and
> > > received the following message
> > >
> > > ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume N00275 in library IBM3494R
> > > cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH.
> > >
> > > The DBbackup volume has a date of 12/23/03. So that data is not valid
> > >
> > > Anyone ever had a tape problem like this?
> > >
> >
> > Dbbackup volumes are pruned via  DELete VOLHistory ... Type=DBBackup .
> > The most recent dbbackup volume is not deleteable, to assure that
> > you have *something* to recover with.
> >
> >     Richard Sims