Sorry Dave, I should have made clear that the Spill volumes are DASD volumes as well, so MARKFULL, recycle etc doesn't apply (I'm not using any tapes at all, everything's DASD).
Brian -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: 16 April 2009 12:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using HSM DASD backup volumes What parameter did you use - Markfull or Reuse? If for some reason you feel you need to use Markfull, then you need to recycle on a regular basis to avoid running out of available output volumes. SETSYS - PARTIALTAPE(BACKUP(REUSE) - MIGRATION(REUSE)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

