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Re: How to force PENDING to EMPTY/SCRATCH immediately?

2000-11-02 17:19:06
Subject: Re: How to force PENDING to EMPTY/SCRATCH immediately?
From: Scott McCambly <mccambly AT ATTCANADA DOT CA>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:28:29 -0500
Thanks Richard, and you're right - that would have been easier in this
situation, but the main intent of my question was to find out a bit more
about the inner workings of the TSM server.

Is this one of those "done everyday at midnight" tasks, like pruning the
activity log, or is there some way to control exactly when it occurs?


At 01:45 PM 11/2/00 -0500, Richard Sims wrote:
>>In the past (at version 3.1.2) whenever I needed to force pending volumes
>>to scratch, I would temporarily set the REUSEDELAY to 0 for the
>>corresponding storage pool and run an EXPIRE INVENTORY.
>
>Just do a Delete Volume on the empty, pending volume - much easier.
>   Richard Sims, BU
>
>
Scott McCambly
AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
(613)799-9269