Carey, As others have stated, if this is a one-time situation you could run TMSGRW or EARL and create a list of volumes (based on a combination of high expiration date and long-time since last used) and use the output list as input to CTSSYNC (that way, having the volser start in column 1 would be all the parsing required).
If this is an on-going situation, there is another alternative using the vaulting system. Think of the 3494 as your "library" and the shelf as a vault (call it "HOME"). You can setup a vault rule that says "keep in the library (LIBR) until un-used for xx days; then move to location HOME until expired". This way, the vaulting system will assign a slot at location HOME for each volume ejected from the 3494 (don't have to keep enough slots for ALL tapes; just those not inside the 3494 and those not at a real off-site location). When the tapes expire, the vaulting system will move the tapes from HOME back to the library and the next day they will be scratched. So basically, when the vaulting system says to move the tapes from HOME back to the library simply put them in a box; wait one day; and re-enter them into the robot as needed as scratch tapes. This would be a way of constantly moving un-used tapes out of the robot and reducing the shelf-space required in the main tape-library. The downside is that they would be assigned unique slots. Of course, if your library has plenty of shelf-space you can simply ignore the slot number assigned by the vaulting system and simply keep tapes at HOME slotted based on their volsers. Feel free to call level-1 for any questions, they would be happy to help setup such vault rules. Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Morris, Carey Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3949 ATL management Thanks to all for the suggestions (and for not pointing out the mangled model number in the subject header). Carey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
