Uriel, If you have a tape with multiple datasets; and some datasets are "keep until un-cataloged" and some dataset have simple retention (10 days, 30 days, 180 days, 5 years) with CA-1 the tape will be kept until all files that are "keep until un-cataloged" have been un-cataloged and after that the tape will continue to be kept until the simple-retention for EVERY file on the tape has been reached.
There is one big caveat however, and that is if the EXPDT field for the volume record itself is manually changed. If you manually change the EXPDT for file-1 on the tape to today; that tape volume will be expired and it will be scratched when TMSCLEAN run tonight. So, a manual update will override the basic processing of CA-1 retention policies. If you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to contact CA-1 L1 support. They would be happy to answer any of your retention questions. Russell Witt L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalogued datasets in tapes and expiration dates Let's say I have a tape with multiple datasets inside. Some datasets may be catalogued, some may not. I can understand the once not catalogued when they expire they no longer hold the tape from going to the scratch pool. But what about those cases when the catalogued datasets hit their expiration date? what happens? am I also correct in assuming that the entire tape with all the stacked datasets is being held until the last dataset in it expires? Please share your thoughts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
