Are you setting the status of these tapes to offsite?  As long as the
     status is offsite they will never go back to scratch.  You have to
     change the status of empty offsite tapes to readonly before they will
     get set to scratch.
      Jim Sporer



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Subject: HELP - running out of tapes!
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>  at IPNET
Date:    12/23/99 10:37 AM


Can anyone help?  As I understand it when you introduce a tape in to a tape
library using the checkin=scratch option this will enable any of the storage
pools to use this tape when required.  Once the data on the tape has expired and
reclamation has run ie the tape has no valid data on shouldn't it be returned to
the library so that it may be used by another storage pool.  This is not
happening with our config.  We are continually having to add tapes to the pool.
We have checked and both reclamation and expiration processing are running.
When these processes run the utlisation for the storage pool goes down (seen by
entering the q stgpool command) however no tapes ever seem to be returned to a
scratch status.  We also find that although the utlisation for the our tapelib
storage pool does go down migration in to this storage pool fails because there
is sufficient storage capacity in the pool and at this point we have to
introduce more tapes.  Any help will be gratefully received.

Simon Hubbard
IBM Global Network Messaging Support
Tel:  Internal 664885.  External 01926 464885
E-mail:  Internal 9HUBBSJ@IBMGB.  External  simon_hubbard AT hotmail DOT com