On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Paul Dudley wrote:
The pct util is 0.0, the tape is in read/write access state and the volume state is full. How can I make this a scratch tape as it has no data on it?
That's an old-chestnut TSM database problem which, as Mark says, is corrected by an Audit Volume. Out of curiosity, what is your TSM server level? Hopefully, newer levels are not exhibiting this problem. Note that a Pct Util of 0.0 does not mean that a tape is empty, thanks to the sorely inadequate 1 decimal position that the product is still using, where 0.04179% will round to 0.0%. In today's very-high- capacity tape world, 1 decimal position is absurdly insufficient to be helpful to customers, and leads to misinterpretations like this. Richard Sims
