On Feb 24, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Remeta, Mark wrote:
Could someone please verify that I understand this correctly.
Case A: I have NodeA and NodeB that is being archived to management class MC-A and it has a retention of 3 years. If I change the retention for MC-A to 7 years all new and existing archives for NodeA & NodeB will be kept for 7 years.
Yes, indeed: been there, done that. So noted in ADSM QuickFacts. If you perform: SELECT * FROM SYSCAT.COLUMNS WHERE tabname='ARCHIVES' you will note that there is no DEACTIVATE_DATE as there is in the BACKUPS table, which is the key.
Case B: I have NodeA and NodeB that is being archived to management class MC-A and it has a retention of 3 years. I create a new management class called MC-B and set the retention to 7 years, then use the -archmc=MC-B on NodeB. All new archives on NodeB will be kept for 7 years but the existing archives on NodeB will still be kept for 3 years. NodeA will remain unchanged.
Per the Admin Guide manual: "Archive copies are never rebound because each archive operation creates a different archive copy. Archive copies remain bound to the management class name specified when the user archived them."
Richard Sims, in snowy Boston
