The status does not change until you run a CA-1 maintenance job. It is not "real time".
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HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: catalogued datasets in tapes and expiration dates > > Forgot to mention, yes, I am using CA-1. > I ran a GENER to copy to output file on our VTL (UNIT=V3590) > with a LABEL=EXPDT=99000 with a DISP to CATLG if successful. > It ran OK and put the dataset (no stacking) into VOL=SER=682436. > Then, via ISPF TMS, I checked the volume and it shows the > expiration date with the CATALOG description. > Then, I went to ISPF 3.2 and uncatalogued the dataset. > TMS still has the same information with the expiration date > set to CATALOG. > I was expecting to see "SCRATCH" instead. > is this normal? > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] on > behalf of Jonathan Goossen [jonathan.goos...@assurant.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:23 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: catalogued datasets in tapes and expiration dates > > The answer likely varies by the TMS in use. > > CA-1 will keep the tape until every dataset on it is expired. > This can be > confusing as the volume record is also the first file on the > tape. CA-1 > will adjust its expiration to be equal the highest on the tape. If you > manually expire the first file (volume record) then the > entire tape will > scratch regardless of the expiration of the rest of the > files. That is one > reason that I am very carful about changing the expiration of volume > records. > > In CA-1 there is an expiration called CATALOG. It will expire the file > when it is no longer cataloged. If a cataloged tape file has a Julian > expiration, then uncataloging the file will not affect > expiration. 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