Hi everybody,

My environment is TSM 5.1.1.6 on a Win2k server.

I take every day a full TSM db backup to a private tape volume. The tapes are 
checked in as private.

However, the past week it happened twice that a database tape was allocated in 
the storage pool for the backup of the clients. If I check the activity log, it 
says indeed "Scratch volume DB_MON is now defined in storage pool SSL_POOL1."

I've checked in the tape with a status private, but somehow it was returned as 
being scratch.  Am I'm missing something here? When I perform the command 
'checkin libv ssl2020 search=bulk status=private', the tape is checked in as 
private and  it shouldn't return to a status scratch. Has anybody else 
experienced the same behaviour?

Thanks in advance,
Kurt