IIRC 5 days is the default hold before scratch for a catalog controlled tape in order to prevent a catalog issue causing tapes to go scratch. Look at catalog records (60-69) and see if the data set was uncataloged prior to that date.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Question concerning pre-mature uncatalog/delete of a tape > file. > > User complained the other day that we had destroyed one of their tapes. > > I ran a DAF report and sure enough TMS had scratched the tape and > uncataloged the file. > > When the tape was originally created it was under catalog control so > that TMS should not have trashed it. > But as I look at the DAFRPT I see the EXPDT change from 99000 to 00000 > and back again. > The last entry 5 days before TMS scratched showed Expdt=00000. > I would have thought that once a tape was created with Expdt=99000, > then that field should have remained 99000. Or does 99000 have to be > coded in the JCL each time the tape is used? > > Dave O'Brien > NIH Contractor > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
