Kees,
Following your suggestion, I tried to delete one of the problem tapes and got
the following:
200041 UNABLE TO DELETE, MUST BE SCRATCH STATUS
0 RECORDS MARKED AS DELETED
1 ERRORS
Thank You,
Dave O'Brien
NIH Contractor
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Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status
"O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes.
> The application owner and the tech support for the silos uncataloged
the datasets and changed the Expdt to the current date expecting the
nightly TMS functions to flip the scratch bit for each of these tapes.
>
> I thought I could delete the pool but the tapes must be in scratch
status first.
>
> Maybe I'm just forgetting something simple but I don't see a utility
that will force a 'scratch status'.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank You,
> Dave O'Brien
That's the way I used to do it too.
Kees.
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