Dual logging is a belt and suspenders operation. If the suspenders are not needed more than the first day, it would be a question for IBM DB2 on how to make it happen without outside intervention.
Are there so many tapes tied up that 4 days is a problem? Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ron > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Delete Tape Datasets > > >>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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
