John Schneider said:
>I can't speak for everybody's product out there, but the EMC CDL (EDL)
>releases the used pages from the virtual volume as soon as you begin to
>overwrite the virtual volume from the beginning.  One thing that does
>this is a Label Libvolume.

This is the way they all work.  And you're right.   All you have to do
is find new tapes in the scratch pool and label them, and voila!.  OR...
You can just wait for the tape to get reused by TSM, at which point all
its space will get erased then replaced with whatever you write to it
next.