Wanda,

That is exactly what I need to do.  I use the command line as much as I
can, as well as the automation, but the scripts, that is pretty cool.
Thanks so much for your help.  I am sorry if I wasted your time asking a
silly question.

Aaron

>>> Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU 11/1/2005 8:11:26 AM >>>
On the other hand:

While the DELETE VOL command (and others) allows you to specify only
one
volume at a time, don't hesitate to use TSM's utterly cool automation
capabilities!

If you can construct a SELECT command to pull your volume list, for
example:

select volume_name from volumes where volume_name like '62%ANWL2'

then you can also have TSM create all the commands for you, for
example:

select 'delete vol' ,volume_name, 'DISCARD=y wait=yes' from volumes
where volume_name like  '62%ANWL2'

Take the resulting list of commands, define it as a tsm script called
DELETEM, then just enter "run deletem".

It will not only do the work for you, the WAIT=YES it will serialize
them !

(As Andy famously says, "the command line is your friend!")

Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O"  -(me)


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
Mark D. Rodriguez
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:54 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Can I do this?


Aaron,

To expand on Andrew's answer a little.  The documentation clearly only
allows you to specify on volume per command, but you could run
multiple
commands.  However, I should caution you when doing so.  If the
volumes
to be deleted contain a large number of files this will be a very DB
intensive process since each file is an object in the data base that
will have to be updated.  You will actually get better performance if
you limit it to 1 or 2 at a time.

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President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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Andrew Raibeck wrote:

>Hello Aaron,
>
>The product documentation should easily answer this question for you.
The
>command reference is, literally, at your fingtertips:
>
>In general:
>
>    help <command>
>
>In your case:
>
>   help delete volume
>
>Regards,
>
>Andy
>
>Andy Raibeck
>IBM Software Group
>Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
>Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
>Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
>
>IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
>http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStora

geManager.html
>
>The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
>The command line is your friend.
>"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-10-31
>19:44:53:
>
>
>
>>Can I delete multiple volumes at one time by issuing the command
'delete
>>volume 623ANWL2,624ANWL2,625ANWL2 discard=y' , or do I have to do
them
>>separate?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Aaron
>>
>>
>
>
>