Re: Virtual tape - size and saving

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Never mind on the size.  I found out you can change it with CHGIMGCLGE.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> All,
>
> Doing some refreshing on virtual tape.  I did some testing a couple of
> years ago and decided at that time not to use it.  Now I might.
>
> What's the maximum size for a virtual volume?  This page
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019030 suggests it's
> 1TB.  Is that right?  (Assuming you have that much available space to begin
> with.)  Does it just expand automatically as you're saving to it?
>
> Also, I've used image catalogs for what seems like forever and love them.
>  All of mine are under '/ImageCatalogs'.  I've always told BRMS to omit
> '/ImageCatalogs' in saves.  If I read it correctly on that same link above,
> it says I can achieve the same results by doing "CHGATR
> OBJ('/ImageCatalogs') ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO)"  I can't believe I haven't
> noticed that before.  Do the rest of you have it set to *ALWSAV *NO?  Will
> I need to do it on every folder within /ImageCatalogs or will doing it on
> the parent folder suffice?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Jeff Crosby
> VP Information Systems
> UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
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>
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