Hallo TSM'ers

                I noticed a few days ago that the TSM setup I am working
on disnt seem to be expiring DB backup volumes according to the
drmdbbackupexpiredays parameter.

                Investigating, I found that del-volhists had been used
to expire the DB volumes. Referring to APAR IY00057, I came to the
understanding that DRM was no longer seeing these volumes as 'managed'
by DRM since a del-volhist had been run, and the unexpired 'vault'
DBBAckup volumes I could see were caused by this.


                Ok, now the problem...

                First, dbbackupexpiredays is set to 7.

                I could force most of the BACKUPFULL tapes to expire and
return to scratch by
                 move drm tostate=onsiteretrieve, but I am left with 4
'Vault' state BACKUPFULL volumes >1 month old, that report
onsiteretrieve is an invalid state to move to.

                Also, I am unable to get any old BACKUPINCR tapes to
expire. Due to a kink in the way this site has TSM setup at the moment,
backupincr's go to a different devclass that points to a separate TSM
server.

                Any help would be muchly appreciated,


                Thanks,

                Matthew.


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