On 5/20/07, Richard Sims <rbs AT bu DOT edu> wrote:

On May 20, 2007, at 3:01 AM, Michael Green wrote:

> For some reason that is beyond my understanding I cannot delete a db
> backup volume of type DBS from the volume history:
> ...

Ostensibly because it is the sole and last DBSnapshot.  See IBM
Technote 1083952.  It would be nice if the manuals advised that
proceeding with such an operation entails this kind of commitment,
and if the ANR2467I message explained why it would not perform the
requested deletion.

Richard, you are right, however in this specific case I'm not trying
to remove the last and only DBS that is left.

There are 2 (two) database snapshots, one from 05/06/2007 and the
other one from 20/06/2007. I expect that running 'del volh t=dbs
tod=today' would remove the older db snapshot leaving the one from
20/06/2007 and that doesn't work.

See entry "DBSnapshot, delete" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/
ADSM.QuickFacts for approaches to handling this.

thanks! Very useful link, I'm going to bookmark it.



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Warm regards,
Michael Green