From:   Stephen B. Hahn [mailto:shahn AT DATAEMPOWERMENT DOT COM]
>I have a question regarding the effect of changing the retention period 
>(retver=nnn) of an Archive Copy Group.

Are all objects previously stored via this archive copy group given the new 
retention or only those stored after the change is made?  

If the answer is the latter, is there a way, via a command or the API to set 
the expiration of a previously archived object?<


...and to answer your other question: once an archive is created, its retention 
period cannot be directly altered in any way.

What you have to do is retrieve the data, and then rearchive it with a 
management class using the preferred retention time.

The lesson here: pick your retention time carefully before you start archiving.

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Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT berbee DOT com)