I might suggest doing your move data back to a disk storage pool if you have
a large enough one.
You can run as many as you have tape drives and since these tapes probably
only have very little data it shouldn't take up much of your diskpool...
You could get a list of the filling volumes and run a little script that
keeps 2 or 3 or however many you wish, move data's running
or just toss'em all in and let resource sharing deal with it
I've run'em both ways...
later,
        Dwight

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> From:         Brazner, Bob[SMTP:Bob.Brazner AT JCI DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:57 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      What's the best way to uncollocate?
>
> We accidentally turned on collocation.  This caused 300 scratch tapes to
> become used (e.g., status=filling).  We've turned off collocation, but now
> I want to get all those tapes back into scratch status.  We thought that
> daily space reclamation would do that for us, but that's not happening for
> these tapes... (is that cuz they're in "filling" status?).  I plan to use
> MOVE DATA (to as disk storage pool) to free up each tape unless someone
> has
> a better approach.  I'd like to process the tapes that have the least
> amount of data, but the PCT UTILIZED and PCT RECLAIMABLE on almost all the
> "filling" tapes show up as zeros.  So, how can I identify the tapes with
> the smallest amount of data?  Environment is 3494/3590/AIX with ADSM
> v3.1.2.20.
>
> Bob Brazner
> Johnson Controls, Inc.
>