HI *sm'ers My customer has following situation. A tape-volume has status filling and the q volume shows that the tape is 100 % full. The backup-transaction abends with Message "no space available in Storage-Pool". It is a TSM-Server 4.1 for AIX. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Gerd Becker EMPRISE NETWORK Consulting GmbH Albstr. 14 70597 Stuttgart Tel.: 0711/990083-0 oder Mobil: 0172/4036581 Fax: 0711/990083-9 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +++++++++++++++++++ http://www.emprise.de http://www.s390.de http://www.zseries.de +++++++++++++++++++