Brian, Q VOL will show you tapes that are in USE - ie: NOT scratch.
Q LIBV will show you tapes in your library that are SCRATCH and will be used when TSM asks for a scratch tape. The pile of tapes on your table next to the TSM server (that dont show up Q VOL) are your scratch tapes that are not in the library ;-) ...deon --- Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website? http://www.tuganz.org Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816, IVPN +70 66058 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ibm.com/tivoli "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14/11/2003 06:03:22 AM: > Hi All, > > I'm kind of new to TSM so anyone can help me on this issue > would be greatly appreciated? > > I have 2 mgmtclass named by "NEW_MC" and "NEWORADB" using > "NEW_TAPEPOOL" as migration destination. I can find out all the tape > list from doing a "query vol |grep NEW" like this: > > 832AAB NEW_TAPEPO- LTODEV_CL- 105,867. > 2 83.8 > Full > 846AAB NEW_TAPEPO- LTODEV_CL- 101,636. > 0 100.0 > Full > > Now, how can I figure which tape I'd be able to re-call as > scratch tapes? Retention period for archive copygoup tells me 35 > days for "NEWORADB" and 365 days for "NEW_MC". > > Thanks, > Brian