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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html