In the normal course of events, you should not need to change the status
of a tape from private to scratch. When all the data on a given volume
expires the tape will go into a pending state for the reuse delay time
defined for the storage pool. When the reuse delay is up, it will be
deleted from
We are experiencing a long wait when do q content volume_name. IS that normal
...at times it will take over 2 hours ? what we want to do is check if the
volume has data in it if it has no data and marked Private status then we want
to change its status=Scratch but not if it has data in it and
First, if the volume has data on it, TSM won't allow you to change the
status from Private to Scratch. For the q content Vol_name test you are
doing, if you want to continue doing it, you can do a q content Vol_name
count=1 which will give you the first object only - this should have a
very quick
