Pat,
     I suggest you test this to make sure you won't have any problems.  We
     are running an mvs adsm server and thought this would be a good idea
     since we were running out of slots in our atl.  We ejected tapes that
     hadn't been mounted recently.  We thought we would get prompted to put
     the tapes back in the atl if adsm wanted to use them.  I don't
     remember exactly what happened but we never got a prompt to put the
     tapes back in the atl. I reported the problem to IBM and was told that
     was the only way they could do it.  When I pointed out that dfhsm
     prompted us to put tapes back in the atl they said they would look
     into it.  In the meantime we got another frame for our atl and didn't
     pursue a resolution.
     Jim Sporer
     UW madison



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Subject: tape library management
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>  at IPNET
Date:    6/22/99 9:38 AM


I've finally reached the point where my on-site tapes won't all fit in the
tape library, so I'm going to have to start shuffling the older ones out.
I'm already running DRM for the copypool and dbbackup tapes...  Any hints or
handy scripts?

Thanks.

Pat Wilson
paw AT dartmouth DOT edu