Rob,

Again this is a fundamental concept in TSM as I stated in my previous
post I think you will need to develop your skill set in the TSM area.

No, you do not want to do DELete VOLume!  What you should be doing on
some regular basis is running reclamation on that storage pool.
Reclamation will then empty the partially used tapes.  Please refer to
the admin guide where you will find several sections discussing managing
storage pools and volumes.

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Rob Berendt wrote:

Unlike my previous post regarding a BACKUP DB volume, now I have a
question about a Copy Storage Pool tape volume.

After I used a tape volume for
backup stg backuppool lto_3581_week2
I want to reuse it.  Do I just:
delete volume 12wk2 discarddata=yes wait=no

Are there any other steps I need?
If I am running TSM 5.2.2 on OS/400 V5R3 under PASE, do I need to INZTAP
also?

Rob Berendt
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