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Activating CA 1 and Daily Batch Processing › Scratch and Clean Processing with TMSCLEAN › Required Conditions

Required Conditions

For TMSCLEAN to scratch a tape, meet all of the following conditions:

  1. Execute TMSCLEAN with the SCRATCHLIST parameter and without the TEST parameter.
  2. The expiration date in the TMC must be less than or equal to the system date on which TMSCLEAN is executed.
  3. The X'01' bit indicating expire by an External Data Manager in FLAG2 is turned on if the controlled by EDM bit (X'20') or the controlled by CA Dynam/T bit (X'10') is on in FLAG3.
  4. The OUTCODE is set to hex zeros, &blank.VMS (blankVMS) or blanks.
  5. The X'40' bit in FLAG3, indicating that the volume was released by an external vault manager, is on for tapes containing a valid OUTCODE.