Alan, Thanks I will give it a try. ________________________________ From: "Starr, Alan" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:19 PM Subject: Re: TLMS - CHANGING THE STATUS OF A TAPE G'day John,
Run the TLMSINQR utility via the CATINQR procedure. The following shows what I use to accomplish this task. //UPDATE EXEC CATINQR,MODE=BATCH //CAIIPT DD * UPV volser SCHED(7xx) UPV volser SCRATCH=NO,CDS=000 UPV volser KEEPDT=12/31/2022 UPD volser KEEPDT=12/31/2022,FILESEQ=1 It's very important to specify SCHED(7xx) - where xx is the TLMS location code - to prevent RMF (Retention Management Facility) from resetting the tape back to scratch. Note that the status of the tape must be manually changed after it expires because option 7 tells RMF to leave it alone. Setting the KEEPDT is just extra insurance. TLMSINQR will notify OAM, which will update the tape library inventory. So, no additional steps are required. Regards, Alan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TLMS - CHANGING THE STATUS OF A TAPE G'Day, I am trying to change the status of a tape which went scratch. I am not very familiar with TLMS. Would anybody have a utility to do this? What I am trying to do is to change the status from SCRATCH to ACTIVE or LIVE because we want to keep the tape for auditing purposes (yes, the auditiors are breathing down my back). Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
