Starting tape recycle

You can use the F OAM,START,RECYCLE command to automatically select full tape volumes based on user defined specifications as recycle candidates, and initiate MOVEVOL with RECYCLE option for those volumes.

The command is as follows:

F OAM,START,RECYCLE,scope

It displays a list of candidate volumes that meet your criteria to the hardcopy log, and in turn, if DISPLAY is not specified, automatically selects recycle candidate volumes and initiates the MOVEVOL with RECYCLE process on those candidates until the limit you specified is reached or no more volumes meeting criteria are available.

You can also issue the F OAM,START,RECYCLE command with the DISPLAY option, which lists in the hardcopy log, the recycle candidate volumes that meet your specified criteria without initiating TAPE RECYCLE processing.

Note:

You can only use this START,RECYCLE command for the recycle of full tape volumes associated with Object or Object Backup storage groups. Optical volumes and tape volumes that are not full continue to be recycled as usual with one cartridge per MOVEVOL command.
You can only run one RECYCLE command at a time. Your attempt to issue the RECYCLE command fails if a previous RECYCLE command is processing. You can issue a RECYCLE command with the DISPLAY option at any time. This is because the DISPLAY option indicates that a list of candidate volumes meeting the user-defined criteria is to be displayed and no recycle activity actually occurs.
You can use tape recycle to move objects from tape sublevel 1 source volumes to tape sublevel 1 target volumes, and objects from tape sublevel 2 source volumes to tape sublevel 2 target volumes.

For more information about enabling and managing the TAPE RECYCLE function, and specifying the criteria for candidate volume selection , see SETOAM keyword definitions for global level.