[Networker] Question on volretent

Does NW actually act on volretent, or is that just a handy attributefield for us to query on with 'mminfo'?

I've always thought that NW looks at the ssretent and/or clretent timesto determine the status of a save set, and then identifies the tape asrecyclable once all the save sets are recyclable AND none has anydependencies.

But that said, I read some older postings where some folks hadexperienced problems with older releases wherein NW would base thevolretent value on the most recent ssretent for any save set on the tapeand not the most recent clretent. Seems it went back and forth a fewtimes with sundry releases.

But even if you had an older save set on the tape, and you changed itsclretent time to a newer date, then NW should also change its ssretent,unless it's expired, in which case you could make it nonrecyclable, andthen that would do it, so why did it matter in older releases if NWbased volretent on the ssretent time and not the clretent time?


Thanks.

George

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