You need to deassign the tape before you can move it between volume pools.

volmgr/bin/vmquery -m <media_ID>

If the output shows a assign date then you will need to deassign the tape.

NBU


On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 5:59 pm, Major, Rusty wrote:
> I have several old catalog tapes that I want to expire and assign to
> another pool. I have done the following:
> Check the catalog on the tape to verify it is old.
> Run bplabel -ev ###### -d hcart -o
>
> The command ran successfully, as far as I can tell, I didn't get any errors
> returned. But I still can't reassign the tape to another pool. What am I
> missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rusty Major, MCSA, MCSE
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