>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?

Scott - As Tim noted from his observations on server behavior, the
        server performs hourly housekeeping checks, every 60 minutes
from when the server started, and Pending volumes whose REUsedelay
is found to be exceeded will then be removed from the storage pool,
to become Scratch.
    Richard Sims, BU