Command to do that is nsrjb. Recently there has been tread on this subject too so I would suggest to read it.

thanks for that

i think i have missed an important point that makes things difficult.

we want the tapes ejected without knowing what they are.

without looking to see tape volumes used etc....

that command ejects the tapes yes, but not sure if it will allow to used tapes from 1 day ago to be ejected.

You could create list of volumes based on what tapes you wish to eject with mminfo command. Then use nsrjb command to eject those tapes.

yes i think i am getting some where

i have used mminfo and i have a text file called tapes_eject.txt

this is the used tapes

i just need to do a nsrjb command to eject them without having to specify the actual names but the contents of the text file instead?

i'm using windows

mminfo -av -q "pool=3MONTHS, savetime>= 1 days ago, location=PV136T" -r volume > "e:\scripts\slots_eject.txt"

this command gives my tapes used the previous night in the text file "slots_eject.txt"

i'm happy with this.

How can i do a nsrjb command to look at this text file and eject those tapes, is that possible?

I use this command to read a file in Windows to eject tapes.

for /f %%I in (f:\scripts\eject_tapes.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %%I

The nsrjb command doesn't accept files as input so you'd still have to write a script to read the file and execute the unload and withdraw commands for each volume. I've never written scripts in Windows so I can't help you there.

Vic

As far as I know mminfo won't tell you which tapes in the '3months' pool are in the tape library. The thing I would do is parse the output from nsrjb. Something like this (assuming you're running Unix/Linux):

for volnme in $(nsrjb -s PV136T | grep ' 3months ' | awk '{print $4}')
do
echo "Press when mail slots are empty:\c"
read inp
nsrjb -u -s PV136T $volnme
nsrjb -w -s PV136T $volnme
done

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Victor Semaska

thanks for that

for /f %%I in (e:\scripts\slots_eject.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %%I

i get the error %%I was unexpected at this time

do you know what that means?

if you are doing it from command line it should be

for /f %I in (f:\scripts\eject_tapes.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %I

In bat file, command is for /f %%I in (f:\scripts\eject_tapes.txt) do nsrjb -w -N %%I

See help in windows for for command fo more info.

It will if you use location field pointing towards library name.