It looks like some of my predecessors set up some rather liberal retention 
policies for some archive management classes. Of particular interest are our 
management classes for DB2 clients, who only use archiving for their database 
transaction logs. We've talked with the DBAs, and they agree that there's no 
reason to archive transaction logs for 365 days. 

My reading of the TSM 5.5 manuals makes me think that when I update the archive 
management classes to lower the RetVer values, this will only matter for 
archiving activities after the change; the change does not effect objects 
already archived. They're not rebound for the the changes in the management 
class. Is this correct? 

I don't doubt that we need to make this change; I just want to manage 
expectations about how soon we'll see a decrease in storage used as a result. 

Thanks,
Nick