Boy, did I screw this one up! Please ignore my previous post to Sam
Sheppard's problem with DELETE VOLHISTORY. Mike Kaczmarski from ADSM
development has posted the correct information (which I've also
appended below).

Thanks, Mike!!                      (:*      <-- egg on my face

>Before you determinf this is a problem. please read the following.
>It is working as designed and documented.
>ADSM manages its own tapes, determining how
>long they should be kept and when they should be returned to
>scratch status.  For database backup tapes (or, in version 1 database
>dump tapes), return to scratch occurrs when the volume history
>for these volumes is deleted by the administrator.
>
>I recommend always using a retention of 99365 and
>letting ADSM Manage the tapes it needs.
>
>Mike Kaczmarski
>ADSM Development


Andy Raibeck
Connecticut Mutual
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