Ron, But that is where your Tape Management System can come into play. All the Tape Management Systems have some type of "rules" (CA-1 calls it the RDS; CA TLMS calls it the RMF; and DFSMSrmm calls it Vital Records) that allow you to specify a retention rule or expiration date for tape files based on the DSN (and/or jobname combination). Simply create a rule in your Tape Management System to scratch these tapes after 1-day; problem solved.
Russell Witt CA 1 L2 Support Manager -----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 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
