Use MARKFULL and then RECYCLE to consolidate short volumes and then make copies.
Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer (509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jack Kelly > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Repost modified: Questions on DFHSM processing > > you can use ovol on the tapecopy for the partials but the ones that are > marked full don't need to copied if a backup exist. when you make another > copy, hsm will expire the previous copy. > depending upon the number of tapes, and usually hsm has several, you're > talking about a lot of time copying. > > Jack Kelly > LA Systems @ US Courts > x 202-502-2390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

