Re: Clear virtual tape?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clear will not change the size of the file, it merely writes over the top of it.  

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects



> On May 16, 2022, at 1:42 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 0.5TB may not show much of a percentage change if you're dealing with petabytes.  😊
>
> How did you check your percentage?  DSPSYSSTS?  Are your image catalogs in the system ASP?  If not then DSPSYSSTS won't show them.
>
> When you look at the size are you using WRKLNK?  What are the values for both of these?
> Size of object data in bytes
> Allocated size of object . .
>
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> We have a virtual tape that we don't use anymore, so I want to clear it to
> free the disk space.  Before I started, /ImageCatalog/tape/backup/GEN001
> was showing a size of 576560259233.  I did an INZTAP command, and GEN001 is
> now showing 12289.  The ironic part is that my disk usage percent didn't
> change at all.
>
> Any ideas?  Think it would help to delete that GEN001 and recreate?
>
> TIA
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