On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Andrew Carlson wrote:
> I have two tapes that are in volume history as status "Remote".  The
> instance
> of TSM they are supposedly remote on no longer have any information about
> these volumes.  When I try to enter them as scratch, they are rejected:
>
> ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 110330 in library 3584LIB cannot be
> assigned
> a status of SCRATCH.
>
> I am assuming this is because it is in volume history as remote.  How do I
> change this and get it checked in as a scratch?
>
> Thanks for any information.

Does the volume still contain data?  If it does, you need to check it in
as private.  TSM will not allow you to check in a tape as scratch if it is
still defined in the database.

checkin libv LIBNAME VOLNAME checkl=no status=private devt=DEVT

hth,

bob