Bill,

How about using the INCLUDE statement to bind the
log backups to a management class with different policies?
For example:

    INCLUDE S*.TXN  MGMT_CLASS_7_DAYS

where MGMT_CLASS_7_DAYS has settings of
VERE=NOLIM, VERD=NOLIM, RETE=7 RETO=7

Thanks,

Del

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> Client is running transaction logging for all databases. The backup
schedule
> is:
> Sunday - Full backup followed by an INACTIVATELOGS command.
> Mon-Sat - Incremental backups
> every 2-hours - Archivelog backups
>
> The management class retention is VERE=NOLIM, VERD=NOLIM, RETE=35 RETO=35
>
> Now they want to only keep the transaction logs for a week, but still
keep
> the full backups for the full 35-days. (They also do a monthly full
backup
> under a separate nodename).
>
> If I understand things, my logs are also kept for the same 35-days until
the
> oldest FULL backup rolls off and the INACTIVATELOGS expires them. Since
the
> logs are all uniquely named, I can't rely on TSM versioning.
>
> How can I only keep a weeks' worth of logs, but 35-days worth of full
> backups??