Brenda,
        You can limit the number of tapes in a storagepool with the UPDATE
STGPOOL <poolname> MAXSCRATCH=nnnn.  If collocation is enabled and there
isn't a scratch tape available, ADSM will write data for multiple
clients to the same tape (more or less turns off collocation).

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Mekgwe Brenda Datavia[SMTP:BrendaM AT TRANSNET.CO DOT ZA]
>Sent:  Tuesday, July 29, 1997 5:21 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Managing Tapes
>
>Hi ADSMers
>
>We have an 8.4G ADSM database running on MVS and about 300 clients with
>servers.
>At the moment we have 3000 3490e tapes, which each is 2.4G. My concern
>is that every week we add tapes to our storage pools which of course
>fills up the robot.
>1. I need to know whether is there a way that we can use to minimize the
>usage of so many tapes.
>
>2. Can we run recycles on our tapes like on HSM and our applications.
>N.B. Expiration is on and we running reclamations too in our storage
>pools.
>
>What can we do?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Brenda Mekgwe
>Transnet Datavia
>South Africa
>