Hello, do you mean tapes for copy stgp ?  Do you run Reclamations ?

René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
*+41'21'924'35'43  7+41'21'924'28'88  * K4-117
email rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com

        This message is intended only for the use of the addressee and 
        may contain information that is privileged and confidential.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [SMTP:Matt.Cooper AT AMGREETINGS DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11. April 2001 16:03
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      very few tapes expiring
> 
> Hello all,
>         I am running TSM 4.1.3 (just upgraded from 4.1.1) on OS390 2.7.
> We
> have been up and running for about 5 months now and the tape people (who
> initially said tapes were returning from offsite) have told me that not to
> many tapes return from offsite.  So I start looking at things.  We have
> NETWARE, NT, AIX, SUN UNIX, DB2, SQL, ORACLE, and MS-EXchange servers +
> 100
> desktops.
>  I see that I have a lot of tapes that are still in use all the way back
> to
> when we were just testing things out 5 months ago.
>  I can also see that the expiration process is running daily ( and not to
> the 3 hr limit).
>  I can see that the tapes all have various amounts of reclaimable % of
> space
> on them, some all the way to 100%,  but even though I see this from
> running
> Q VOL xxxxxx that when I run Q CONTENT xxxxx COUNT=100 that there are some
> files there.
> I know that the copygroups have been changed around, but  they always had
> either VERSIONS DATA EXISTS < 45   or RETAIN EXTRA VERSIONS < 45.  RETAIN
> ONLY VERSION is 60, everywhere.
> I know that I update the copy groups and activate the policysets every
> weekend to change the COPYMODE to/from ABSOLUTE/INCREMENTAL to force
> weekend
> fulls. (this shouldn't matter?)
> I see some NETWARE, AIX, DB2 files on these tapes that are 4 months old.
> I am at a loss as to what is wrong or what I am to new to know.  Anybody
> have an idea as to where I should look or what I am not doing?
> many thanks
> Matt