Thanks, John,  is it possible to delete a range?  We have a few thousand to do. 






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McKown" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:52:33 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: Need to delete olsolete entries from tape volcat 

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Linda Mooney wrote: 

> Greetings All, 
> 
> We removed a hardware VTS a few months ago, replacing it with another 
> virtual tape appliance.  The new tape appliance uses a different range 
> of tapes that are also in the same volcat.  We use CA1 and SMS control 
> for all of the virtual tapes.  We now have a problem in that we want to 
> remove all of the volcat entries from the shared volcat that belonged to 
> the old hardware VTS that has been de-installed.   What would be the 
> best way to accomplish this task? 
> 
> TIA, 
> 
> Linda Mooney 
> 

Use IDCAMS. 

DELETE Vvolser VOLUMEENTRY 

Where "volser" is the actual volser. EG to delete 123456 

DELETE V123456 VOLUMEENTRY 

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Trying to write with a pencil that is dull is pointless. 

Maranatha! 
John McKown 

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