Recently, we discovered that, due to some mistakes in our storage pool
Max Capacity/Estimated Capacity, we had created a HUGE number of
volumes in our backup pool. We corrected the parameters that were
wrong, and now, little by little, we have begun to reclaim our wasted
tape space.
We've temporarily set the reclaim threshold very low to force ADSM to
stay busy reclaiming the space on our tapes, and we're prepared to
wait for a while to hopefully shrink the size of our storage pool.
Unfortunately, you can't set the reclaim threshold below 1%, and a
very large percentage of the tapes in our pool show a 0% reclaimable
status. This number is wrong, because of the earlier setup, and these
tapes actually have a large amount of wasted space on them.
How can we force ADSM to perform reclaims on the tapes in our pool
that show 0% reclaimable? I know that we could use MOVEDATA to
accomplish this, but since MOVEDATA would require a separate command
for each volume, this would be a very difficult process to complete
against the several thousand volumes that are suspected of being
wrong.
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