Two recommendations below > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Allan Staller > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:03 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble > > For each affected volser: > > HSEND LIST TTOC(volser) ODS(xxxxx) > HDEL 'datasetname' for each indicated dataset.
Add the PURGE operand to the HDEL command in case any datasets have long retention. > HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) HDELVOL volser MIGRATION(PURGE) might be safer (will not affect any other empty tapes). > HTH, > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble > > Several years ago, the HSM tapes were migrated from 3490 to 3590. > > At that time, two 3490 tapes were unreadable so the systems programmer just skipped > the recycle and went on to the next tape. So, now I have 2 > 3490 tapes still in my CDS and I want to remove them. These tapes were created back > in 2001, so we are just going to write-off the data on the tapes as 'aged-out'. > > What is the proper procedure to eliminate these volumes from HSM? > > -- > Tony Thigpen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN