on the tsm cmd line type
q stgpool <stgpool name> f=d 
This will tell you what the reclamation is set to now.  

This staement says give me the number of tapes that have 5% of active data that 
can be reclaimed to other tapes that have free space. (I thinbk that's right)

select count(*) from volumes where pct_reclaim>95 and stgpool_name='ARCHIVEPOOL'

If you have many tapes that have data that can be reclaimed ruin a reclaim 
stgpool using the following cmd line.  As you get closer to the 95% decrease 
your select % number down to 90% etc.  

upd stgpool ARCHIVEPOOL rec=95  

This will automatically kick off a reclmataion process and cancel when it gets 
to 95% or you may want to cancel before you get to your nightly processing as 
reclaims will tape at least 2 drives.



-----Original Message-----
From: John Doe [mailto:SDinelle AT CANADELLE DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Storage Consolidation


So higher the % will be, more tapes it will use OR is it the opposite?






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help upd stgp


Among other things:



REClaim
      Specifies when the server reclaims a volume, based on the
percentage of
      reclaimable space on a volume. Reclamation makes the fragmented
space
      on volumes usable again by moving any remaining unexpired files from
      one volume to another volume, thus making the original volume
available
      for reuse. This parameter is optional. You can specify an integer
from
      1 to 100.

      Specify a value of 50 percent or greater for this parameter so that
      files stored on two volumes can be combined onto a single output
      volume.
      Note:
           This parameter is unavailable for storage pools with
           DATAFORMAT=NETAPPDUMP or DATAFORMAT=CELERRADUMP.





John Doe wrote:
> I have nothing about the "rec" parameter!!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Hart, Charles" <charles.hart AT MEDTRONIC DOT COM>
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> 01/06/2004 02:34 PM
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Storage Consolidation
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> run a reclaim on the stg pool
>         upd stgpool <stgpool> rec=80 (or what ever your % of reclaimable
> space is per tape )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Doe [mailto:SDinelle AT CANADELLE DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Storage Consolidation
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We are using TSM Server for Windows - Version 5, release 1, Level 6.4
>
> We have a storage pool called ARCHIVEPOOL. In that storage pool we have
> too much tape.
>
> Is there a way to consoliated all the tapes into one? Or at least less
> than actual; 8.
>
>
> Thanks