It depends on your library.  Some are designed to clean themselves
and setting ASNEEDED won't work on some libraries.  What Library
and Server do you have?

David Longo

>>> Peddi AT ITN DOT IS 10/29/01 12:10PM >>>
Hodwy fellow TSM ers

How can i see if the tape drives in a library are realy cleaning them selfs,
if i configure the drives to ASNEEDED, and i have a cleaning tape in the
library.






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