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Tape Retention Parameter Guidelines

We recommend that you use only one tape retention parameter per entry; however, if you use more than one parameter, each parameter must be satisfied before a SYSOUT no longer has expanded retention (PERM) status. For example, suppose you have COPIES=3 and RETPD=30 for a SYSOUT that is created daily. All copies are kept for 30 days. The most recent three copies are kept indefinitely.

When the tape retention criteria are satisfied, the SYSOUT ID is no longer in expanded status, even if the disk retention criteria is not satisfied.

Note: If no ERO tape or disk retention is specified (COPIES, RETPD, GENS), then the initialization parameter PCOPIES is used as the default.