If you have colocation turned on for a storage pool, and lots of filling
tapes, look at your 'maxscratch' setting for that storage pool.  If you have
200 clients using that pool, and a maxscratch of say 250, TSM will have a lot
of filling tapes (depending on the size of the clients, and the maxcap of the
tapes).  If the maxscratch is high, set it lower, and 'move data'.  That
should free up some tapes.

2cents,

bob

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:57:21AM -0400, Bradberry, Kenneth wrote:
> How can I temporarily produce some scratch tapes from my tape library.  I
> would think reducing the retention period of my DRM pool and expiring the
> inventory would work, but I need some other ideas.  I have a lot of privates
> in primary tape pools, what if I increased my disk pools, how can I free up
> tapes?  Just looking for ideas.  I will have new tapes in a few days.
>
> Ken