David,

>We are in the process of eliminating old pools of tapes.
>The application owner and the tech support for the silos uncataloged the 
>>datasets and changed the Expdt to the current date expecting the nightly TMS 
>>functions to flip the scratch bit for each of these tapes.
>
>I thought I could delete the pool but the tapes must be in scratch status 
>first.
>
>Maybe I'm just forgetting something simple but I don't see a utility that will 
>>force a 'scratch status'.
>
>Any suggestions?

I would check to see if there is an out of area code or the external data 
manager flag is set.

Regards,
John

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