At 9:37 AM -0500 10/25/02, Mark Stapleton wrote:

        UPDATE STG <stgpool_name> REUSEDELAY=<number_of_days>

Tape volumes in the storage pool will now go to PENDING status when they are
moved to ONSITERETRIEVE status. You won't be able to check them in as
scratch tapes until the reusedelay period of time expires.

That's not exactly the problem I'm trying to solve. I want to check
them in as scratch tapes. I just don't want them to disappear out of
the database before that happens.

Example. We generate a list of all tapes in VAULTRETRIEVE status, and
give that to a human and tell him to bring all those tapes back from
the vault.  We move all the tapes on the list to ONSITERETRIEVE
status.  Human brings tapes back from the vault. We load them into
the bulk entry door and issue the CHECKIN command to check them in as
scratch.  All is OK if human retrieves all the right tapes.  But if
one doesn't get retrieved for some reason, there is no longer any
record that the tape exists and isn't where it belongs.  I'd like to
have it left in the database in some status, VAULTRETRIEVE or
COURIERRETRIEVE or anything that would indicate that it exists and
needs to be returned to the library.
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