Hi all, I'm after some clarrification about the stgp maxscratch setting for one of our storage pools. We recently decommissioned a server and removed all it's data out of TSM, thus freeing up a lot of tapes for other uses, but I'm now finding that our collocated storage pool has decided to hoard all our scratch tapes for itself, even though it doesn't put any data in them.
Our collocated tape storage pool currently has 32 tapes allocated to it,11 of which are filling with only 5 tapes of those having data on them. The Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed setting for this storage pool is set to 100, which is a tad excessive so I want to pull it back to a smaller number. Would setting this maxscratch paramater back down to say 5 be reasonable without causing other problems? This particular storage pool is lucky to fill one tape a night and it reclaims about 1 tape a day, I don't want it to keep stealing all available scratch tapes for itself as our tape library is already at capacity. Thanks in advance! Gordon Woodward -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
