John, "there is a cryptic message that it marks them full after a "FEW" cycles.... whatever that might mean)."
It means that HSM will select the partial tapes first and after a few cycles you won't have any partial tapes. You will however have a lot of partially used tapes which are marked full leading to either a scratch tape shortage or cpu cycles to run Recycle. Why not just turn on Duplex? Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Mattson [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DFHSM MARKFULL any easier way to do it. I just read DFHSM Admin Guide and section "Converting Partial Tapes to Full Tapes" and I am more confused than ever. I know that DELVOL MXXXXX MIGRATION(MARKFULL) will mark a volume full. But that requires reading an HSM listing and creating commands to mark them all full. I have tried SETSYS PARTIALTAPE(MIGRATION(MARKFULL)) but that does NOT immediately mark a tape full. (there is a cryptic message that it marks them full after a "FEW" cycles.... whatever that might mean). And the tapes must be marked full for TAPECOPY to select those tapes. So, is creating a REXX to read the list and do DELVOL ... MARKFULL the way to get all of the ML2 tapes into FULL status so that I can make my copies with TAPECOPY? or is there a better way? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
