Peter logon to your aix system as user db2xxxx or user who is owner the db2 
backups
and then run command :

db2adutl query full

you will show list of your db2backups

then run command

db2adutl delete full older than XX days.

your db2 backups will not expire until you dont run this command




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All,
Does anybody know why wouldn't db2 backups expire, when, in theory, they
should be?
We have an AIX-SP environment, with TSM 4.1, server and clients. DB2 data is
backed up via the TSM-API. The copygroup criteria for this data is: versions
exists=1; versions deleted=1; retain extra versions=1, retain only
version=3.
DB2 backups have been occurring weekly since mid-November 2000, yet none of
the DB2 backup images have ever expired. We run inventory expiration daily.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Peter Glass
Distributed Storage Management (DSM)
Wells Fargo Services Company
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