That's it!  I looked up DEF VOL and sure enough you can use both scratch
volumes and DEF VOL to add empty volumes to the offsite tapepool.

Thanks,
Eliza
>
> Hi Eliza,
> Define K tapes to onsite storage pools and J tapes to offsite pools.
>
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>                     Eliza Lau
>                     <lau AT VTCAT DOT CC        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST 
> DOT EDU
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>                     Sent by:             Subject:     replacing all 3590 with 
> 3590 extended
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>                     Stor Manager"
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>                     12.06.2002
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>                     Stor Manager"
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>
> Hi TSMers,
>
> We are looking into replacing 1200 3590 J tapes with 600 3590 extended length
> K tapes to make room in the 3494.  While the state is cutting 9% of the
> University's budget, it is a tremendous waste to throw away 1200 perfectly
> fine tapes.  Now my boss wants to know if there is a way we can use the
> J tapes for the offsite storage pool only.  I looked throught the Admin
> Reference and there doesn't seem to be a way to do:
>
>    backup stgpool tapepool tapeback scratch=no volumenames=file:listof3590
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3
> tape library: 3494
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eliza Lau
> Virginia Tech Computing Center
> 1700 Pratt Drive
> Blacksburg, VA 24060
> lau AT vt DOT edu
>