Scratching tapes in TLMS

Products

• TLMS Tape Management

Issue/Introduction

Could you please advise on the recommended procedures to scratch files that are updated with retention rule of 2DC9130?

Environment

TLMS R14.0

Resolution

Scratching Tapes

Tapes are logically changed from non-scratch to scratch status in any of the following ways:

• Automatically during the TRS run.

• Manually by changing SCRATCH=NO to SCRATCH=YES on the Update screen.

• Manually by using the UPV command and specifying SCRATCH=YES. If there is more than one data set on the volume, you must also specify CDS=nnnn, where nnnn is the file sequence number (FILESEQ) of the data set. (To see the file sequence number, use the DV command.)

• By specifying DISP=(OLD,DELETE) in the JCL, if TLMSIPO option DISP=YES is specified.

Additional Information

Please note that TLMS product has been functionally stabilized.  Please refer "Stabilization Announcement for Tape Library Management System (TLMS)"