Barbara,

I'm sure your aware of this little bit of info on reuse, but in case you
didn't know:

You should set the reuse delay equal to the expiry period of your
database backups. 
For example, if you are using DRM and your DRMDBBackupexpiredays is set
to 6, or you run delete volhistory
type=dbbackup todate=today-6, you should set REUsedelay on the copy
storage
pools to 6 as well.


Barbara Andrews wrote:
> Thanks, but I already know how to change the reusedelay value, and I 
> don't want to set the value to 0.  I'm wondering if there is another 
> setting that tells TSM how often to check and see what the reusedelay 
> value is set to.
>
> Subject:
> Re: change in reusedelay value and time it take for tapes to change 
> status
> From:
> "Hudalla, Bill" <Bill.Hudalla AT CHSINC DOT COM>
> To:
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date:
> Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:26:14 -0600
>
> How about "upd stg (stgpoolname) reuse=0"
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Barbara Andrews
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] change in reusedelay value and time it take for 
> tapes to change status
>
> When I set the reusedelay period for one of my tape storage pools to a

> lower value in order to force more tapes to go from pending status to 
> empty, I notice that it can take anywhere from a few minutes to as 
> much as an hour for the tapes to change status.  I'm guessing this is 
> because there is some interval set at which TSM checks on the 
> resusedelay value.
> Does anybody know how/if this value can be changed so that I can make 
> the interval shorter?
>
> Barbara Andrews, Systems Software Specialist
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Western New York Regional Information Center (716)821-7130 bandrews AT

> e1b DOT org
>
>
>