SCRATCH volumes become PRIVATE when checked in

After volumes were checked in the library as SCRATCH, TSM changed their status to PRIVATE.


Inspect the activity log for ANR8356E and ANR8778W.

q ac s=ANR8356E
q ac s=ANR8778W


If you have surpassed your activity log retention period, the SELECT statement below will identify these tapes.

select volume_name from libvolumes where status='Private' and last_use is Null and volume_name not in (select volume_name from volumes) and volume_name not in (select volume_name from volhistory where type in ('BACKUPFULL', 'BACKUPINCR', 'DBSNAPSHOT', 'DBDUMP'))



This situation typically happens when volumes were previously labelled in a different TSM server; or when a tape what should have been checked in as SCRATCH is checked in as PRIVATE.


The resolution is to check in the volumes using the following command:

label libv <LIBR_NAME> labels=b search=b checkin=scr overwrite=y waitt=0

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