Could you share those scripts?

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Subject: Re: More Questions on DR Without DRM
Author:  Cyndee.L.Groves (Cyndee.L.Groves AT MAIL.SPRINT DOT COM) at unix,mime
Date:    2/24/99 4:59 PM


Ginny

We have the DRM module in place and used scripts to create a menu driven
system that allows print outs to occur.  The printouts provide them with
what is going to be ejected ( and sent offsite) then manipulates the
tapes with an internal command to eject and change the status. Then
another menu item lists what tapes we want to return with a vault
retrieve status, they in turn send it with our offsite tapes to the
vendor who reads what needs to be returned.  We then have a menu item
that lists what is supposed to be in a courier retrieve state that also
kicks off an internal command that checks in the tapes after they are
inserted.

Cyndee  Groves
Sprint  - Network Systems Services
Systems Management

   -----Original Message-----
   From:       vhysock [SMTP:vhysock AT CSC DOT COM]
   Sent:       Monday, February 22, 1999 10:58 AM
   To:         ADSM-L
   Cc:         vhysock
   Subject:    More Questions on DR Without DRM

   Hi all,

        I got some good information from a couple of you on how you get
   tapes
   for offsite movement ejected from your IBM 3494 library (with an AIX
   ADSM
   server) - thanks for that!  Now, can any of you that are sending
   tapes
   offsite with an AIX server clue me in on how you are managing the
   tapes
   while they're offsite??  I.E., how do you know when to bring them
   back?
   How do you alert your offsite location to send them back?  I'm
   basically an
   MVS'er, and am totally lost without a tape management system!  Do
   some of
   you have homegrown TMS's or what?

                            Thanks in advance,

                            Ginny