At one site, we put a process in place to run a LIST TTOC looking for partials, generating and running the DELVOL MARKFULL commands before the alternates were taken offsite. The main culprit in this case was that command level backup (i.e. HBACKDS) does not use the PARTIALTAPE parm for backup; this is only used for automatic backup process or a BACKVOL command, I believe. Using INUSE(RETRY) can also cause this issue, since the backup retries are queued as command level backups. I do not recall if (or how) ML2 tapes were affected.
An alternative might be to use the ARCMDEXT exit and check if Interval Migration or PSM is in progress. If the answer to both is no, then I think it would be a command level migration of some kind and the output could be directed to DASD rather than TAPE. You would need to set a RC=36 or 40 in the exit, depending on whether you want the dataset to be compacted on DASD or not. More information on the ARCMDEXT can be found at: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2C760/6.10? SHELF=EZ2ZO10L&DT=20080603102513 Hope this helps in some way. Chris Taylor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
