Hello, did you check that the media access status is "readwrite" or it is
"unavailable?
----- Original Message -----
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 17:03
Subject: very few tapes expiring
> Hello all,
> I am running TSM 4.1.3 (just upgraded from 4.1.1) on OS390 2.7.
We
> have been up and running for about 5 months now and the tape people (who
> initially said tapes were returning from offsite) have told me that not to
> many tapes return from offsite. So I start looking at things. We have
> NETWARE, NT, AIX, SUN UNIX, DB2, SQL, ORACLE, and MS-EXchange servers +
100
> desktops.
> I see that I have a lot of tapes that are still in use all the way back
to
> when we were just testing things out 5 months ago.
> I can also see that the expiration process is running daily ( and not to
> the 3 hr limit).
> I can see that the tapes all have various amounts of reclaimable % of
space
> on them, some all the way to 100%, but even though I see this from
running
> Q VOL xxxxxx that when I run Q CONTENT xxxxx COUNT=100 that there are some
> files there.
> I know that the copygroups have been changed around, but they always had
> either VERSIONS DATA EXISTS < 45 or RETAIN EXTRA VERSIONS < 45. RETAIN
> ONLY VERSION is 60, everywhere.
> I know that I update the copy groups and activate the policysets every
> weekend to change the COPYMODE to/from ABSOLUTE/INCREMENTAL to force
weekend
> fulls. (this shouldn't matter?)
> I see some NETWARE, AIX, DB2 files on these tapes that are 4 months old.
> I am at a loss as to what is wrong or what I am to new to know. Anybody
> have an idea as to where I should look or what I am not doing?
> many thanks
> Matt
