Hopefully they have and robot type tape system. If they have a manual type
system ( we have 2 3590 tape drives) automatic tape reclamation can become
messy to deal with.

Dave Bronson
Unix Admin.
Compass Group, USA
704-329-7944


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Moir,Betsy [mailto:betsy.moir AT ABBOTT DOT COM]
                Sent:   Tuesday, June 15, 1999 9:09 AM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Re: reclamation

                Basically, as data becomes old or expired or deleted it is
marked for
                reclamation,  and when ADSM reclaims tapes (it's sort of a
merge/purge
                process), the "active" files on a tape are moved to another
tape and the old
                tape is returned to the scratch pool.  This reclamation
process is determined
                by a reclamation threshhold that is set in the stgpool
definition - REC=999.

                To automate the reclamation process, we drop our reclamation
threshhold on
                the weekend to rec=10 with an admin schedule.

                Define sched schedname type=admin cmd=Update stgpool
stgpoolname rec=10.

                The reclamation threshold indicates how much reclaimable
space a volume must
                have before ADSM reclaims the volume.  When it's set to 10,
only 10% of a
                volume has to be expired, deleted or aged files.  We return
the reclamation
                threshold to rec=100 during the week so that no reclamation
takes place.

                More information about how to set up admin schedules and
what levels
                reclamation thresholds should be set at can be found in the
Admin Guide.

                Hope this helps.




                ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 06/15/99 07:50:48 AM
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                Subject: reclamation

                Hi!
                        Just wondering if anyone can help me with
reclamation, understanding
                what it is and how I can automate this?  All help is greatly
appreciated.
                Thanks.

                Luanne R. Hancock
                J.D. Edwards
                303-334-4843 office
                303-334-4716 fax
                luanne_hancock AT jdedwards DOT com