If you don't want to change the REUSEDELAY but force some tapes back to
scratch, I believe you can do a delete vol on them and they will got to
empty.  If they are in the library, they will go to scratch.  I use this on
my primary tapes when I run out of scratches and need a scratch tape for DB
backup.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:10 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Changing tape vol from pending status to readwrite


The tapes stay in PENDING status until the REUSEDELAY days (set in the parms
for the storage pool) have elapsed.  To make them go back to READWRITE, you
either have to wait, or change the REUSEDELAY parm.  After the REUSEDELAY
has elapsed, I think TSM checks about once an hour for tapes that need to be
set back to empty/readwrite.  You can't force them, as far as I know.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Lochhead [mailto:RLochhead AT CSE-INSURANCE DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:52 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Changing tape vol from pending status to readwrite


TSM = 5.11
OS= Win2K

I have many tapes in my tapepool which show status as pending.  I am trying
to upd the status to readwrite so I can use the tapes now.  I realize that
the pending will automatically change to readwrite at a certain time period.
Can I move to readwrite now?  I have already tried to use, upd vol volname
access=readwrite  but when I check by q vol the vol status still is set at
pending.

Thanks for any help.  Ron




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