Hi Terri, In your first update you indicated you were having trouble with dump tapes. Is it only dump or is it also ML2 and Backup tapes also? There is a separate setup for dump tapes in the DEFINE DUMPCLASS eg EXPIRATIONDATE, RETENTIONPERIOD & AUTOREUSE these allow you to manage your dump tapes differently than your other tapes.
I would suggest as opposed to using VRS's use the EDM (External Data Manager) support added in RMM and discussed here https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/tapes-released-scratch-without-hsm You can also use some of the FIXCDS commands here to see if HSM still knows about the tape(s). You should also make sure the EDGTVEXT is installed correctly as documented in RMM because that is what HSM needs to call to communicate a volume to scratch to RMM. In addition you could refer to APAR OA52541 for additional information. https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA52541 We had times when the VRS's were not set up properly to manage the tapes and found they could get released to scratch prematurely so we put in the EDM support to allow HSM and RMM work better together. Hope this helps. Max Smith DFSMS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
