>>For some reason, the tape(s) on which these datasets reside have an >>expiration date of 4 days. The owner of these datasets does not want to >>change that, but he does want the day old datasets deleted. >>
>Why should you have to go and manually (or automatically) delete tapes after >one day, just because the owner doesn't want to change the expiry date? >It's your shop, but that is the purpose of an expiry date, especially with a tape >management system. >Once you do something like that, you'll open the doors to even more complex >solutions for simple problems. >- >Too busy driving to stop for gas Yes, but according to our DB2 DBA... we use dual logging, one set to tape, one set to DASD. He wants to keep the ones going to DASD for 4 days, but delete the tape ones after one day. There's a zparm... DSN6ARVP ARCRETN set to 4, which sets the retention to 4 days, but (excuse me for being a DB2 novice...) did not see anything in the DB2 manuals about setting retention for tape to 1 day andkeeping the DASD retention period to 4 days.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
