How to del individual VolHist DBB entries?

[d3vzero]

Hi,

Looking for a method to remove individual DB Backup Tape entries, from within TSM, rather than just blowing away every DBB entry older than a certain date.
(ie del volhist type=dbb todate=today-7).

Does anyone know of a way to achieve this ?

Our Config consists of TSM 5.1.1 on Aix 4.3.3.

Thanks and Best Regards, Peter.

 

[sushveer]

Hi peter

Just now,I got a chance to see your post in this forum...eventhough it is late , I would like to suggest you
an alternate method...as follows...

dsmc>set drmdbbexpiredays 7

If you set automatic expiration dbb entries tsm will take care of it...You need not delete manually later..


sushveer
IBM certified specialist-p-series AIX5L System Administration
AIX/SOLARIS/WEBSPHERE-MQ/TIVOLI Administrator

 

[d3vzero]

Hi Sushveer,

Thanks for the info.

Unfortunately the company is not in a position to purchase/licence DRM (at present).

I'm putting in place a facility to automate the DBB checkout/checkin/request sent Offsite/request returned Onsite processes (which are currently manual, and the operators are getting wrong all the time).

This facility uses the VOLHIST DBB entries (in TSM DB) to keep track of everything, and is responsible for removing the respective DBB entries as part of the checkin process.

This is why I cant use an auto delete of VolHist entries older than 7 days.

Current code will recognise that an old DBB tape has not been returned, and only allow entries older than the oldest DBB (yet to be returned) to be removed from VolHist.

This is not a clean way of doing things though as its then posible for all scratch tapes to be consumed due to one missing tape blocking the deletion of old expired VolHist DBB entries.

What I really want is a method for deleting one individual DBB VolHist entry, and then include that method as part of that individual tapes checkin as scratch process.

That way any issues getting a tape back cannot affect anything else.

So ..... Any ideas beyond DRM ?