Run a list of your assigned tapes. Recycle any that are not marked full. They were created before you got the setting correct.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 2:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: HSM question > > That's what I thought, but it does not seem to be working. So, I figured I was > misreading or doing something wrong. > > Tony Thigpen > > retired mainframer wrote on 11/24/2016 04:42 PM: > > Doesn't SETSYS PARTIALTAPE(BAKCUP(MARKFULL)) do what you want? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > m...@listserv.ua.edu] > > On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 7:30 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: HSM question > > > > The elapsed time is 10 minutes. > > > > Before we get off-track too much, the end result we are looking for is: > > We want the HSM backup process to *always* use a scratch tape. We > > never want it to ask for an existing tape to append to. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN