Hello,
using DELETE VOLHISTORY TYPE=DBBackup command will scratch your tapes in
CA1.
We use it in a daily administrative schedule.
Thanks, rl
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Gary Wood [SMTP:glw2 AT VNET.IBM DOT COM]
>Sent:  Friday, August 01, 1997 5:46 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       ADSM not scratching DUMP tapes
>
>I think I may know the answer to this, but will pose the question to
>confirm.  We run the ADSM server on MVS (version 1), backing up the
>data base via the DUMP DB command.  I set up a separate device class
>for this purpose, to 3480 cartridge, with a retention of 30 days.
>The tapes show up in the tape mgmt system (TLMS) with the 30-day ret
>but are never scratched by TLMS.  I must go in and manually scratch
>them using the info from the VOLHIST file.  The deletion exit for TLMS
>is in place and works nicely for the tapes which have gone through
>Reclamation.  Why doesn't ADSM tell TLMS to scratch the DUMP DB tapes
>after 30 days ??