Hi, Could this be a function of your library – Expire Hold? DFSMSrmm is not able to report on volumes that are in the Expire Hold status to the library, so they show up as scratch, but are unusable until the tape library releases them from that status.
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of rpinion865 <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Scratch tape woes (RMM, SMS, OAM) A run of RMM house keeping job? "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 5/21/25 7:48 AM, Vince Getgood <[email protected]> wrote: > 10 scratch tapes "appeared" at some point today... No idea how or why. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
