Dave, Sorry for the confusion, I meant to say that I also did it by changing the expdt of a large number of tapes to today in batch and let TMS maintenance set them to scratch. If the TMS parms are set correctly, it will also uncatalog them at the same time.
Kees. "O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > 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 > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status > > "O'Brien, David W. [C] , NIH/CIT" <[email protected]> wrote in > message > news:<[email protected]>... > > 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. > ********************************************************************** > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: > http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain > confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee > only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part > of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or > distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or > attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have > received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately > by return e-mail, and delete this message. > > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries > and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or > incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor > responsible for any delay in receipt. > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal > Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with > registered number 33014286 > ********************************************************************** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
