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We will soon need to replace our TSM ts3310 cleaning tape and I am finding a lot of confusing information about the process of changing the tape.

We have the cleaning Frequency set as NONE, and I...

Thanks moon-buddy. Sorry about the lousy spelling on the subject line I was trying to talk on the phone and key at the same time.

Russ

We have a ts3310 E9U expansion installed and want to add another E9U assigned to the same storapool. How can we install the new unit as an extension of the existing unit?

Thanks,

Russ

When I change the tapes back to scratch, after a few minutes I get the following message.

ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume MOD124L4 in
drive 3576-1...

We loaded some new LT04 tapes and checked them in as scratch. They are showing up in q libv but not in q vol and they are not being accessed. Is there anything that has to be done to the tapes...

What could cause slots to not show up in the list for "SHOW SLOTS ts3310"?

Example:

Slots 26 thru 33 are not showing up in the list, some others are not showing up also

Slot 25, status...

Our system runs reclaim automatically based on thresholds set for the storage pool, and depending on the number of scratch tapes that are available.

It appears that we do not have enough scratch...

We are getting the following TSM errors while doing a DB2 backup and it appears to be related to no scratch tapes available. The storage pool is set to reclaim at 90 high mig pct and 70 low mig pct,...

We have a few tapes that have gone to status "stgdelete" and they are not showing up in most of the list. We tried checking them in as scratch but this has not been working, we get "0 volumes found"....

This is from our established ts3310 unit which has been in operation for almost 3 years. The slots have been licensed and the tapes are available and are accessed daily, and they are also visible...

Following is more detail of what I get with "show slots ts3310". The slots are not empty.

tsm: TSMOND>show slots ts3310
PVR slot information for library TS3310.
Library : TS3310...

When I do "show slots" on our current library it does not show any BARCODE inforamtion for any of the slots, is this normal?

Example:

Slot 0, status Allocated, element number 4096, barcode not...

We haven't added it yet, but from what I think you are saying is that when we add it we can define it as an addition to what we have now. Which will add 120 tapes to our current 120 tapes. Sorry...

Thanks Chad

Thanks Chad

Is there a way to identify tapes that are reaching their maximum number of recommended mounts?

Thanks,

Russ

We have the a 3576-E9U installed and have a received a "ts3310 - 3576-E9U Expansion Unit with 2 tape drives" to install. Does the new one have to be setup as a separate stgpool or can it be added to...

Thanks cwilloug.

We have an old LT03 based tape library and a ts3310 library attached to a CMOD server and we no longer use the LT03 library. We want to delete the old library and just retain the ts3310 library.
...

Thanks LED888

I am seeing a lot of old backup volumes and I am not sure how to remove these. Does TSM have an operation to delete these on a scheduled basis or is it a manual cleanup? See example below from...

We are AIX.

I did the 'Lsdev -C -c tape' command and following are the results of what we have in the way of tape drives.


rmt0 Available 07-01-02 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP)
rmt1...

Thanks Sailu and groszek.

I found the tape using volhistory and following is the result

DATE_TIME: 2010-01-07 12:57:47.000000
UNIQUE: 1
TYPE: STGDELETE

I tried...

Thanks etchingsj,

Yes and yes. We are not typically a TSM shop, the TSM system is part of IBM CMOD. We do not have a TSM adminstrator so when we started filling up the tapes on our system...

We recevided a new ts3310 tape unit and we are currenly using a ts3310 unit with 120 LT04 tapes. How do we add the new tape unit and define it to be an addition to the the current unit which would...

groszek,

No, the tapes do not show up when we do the 'q vol' command.

NOD002L4 TIER3POOL TS3310 65.0 G 100.0 Full
NOD003L4 ...

Thanks groszek. I have tried Audit before, but it did not return anything and still does not recognize the tapes.

Thanks,

Russ

We have several tapes that do not appear in a 'q libv' query. I cannot seem to find them in the system, but I know they have not been removed from the tape library. Does anyone have any suggestions...

Thanks Oguri and Tariq.

I am new a TSM and have not had any formal training. and I have several TSM quesions that I hope someone can help with with. Following is the first quesion.

We have the following tapes that show...