Re: TSM and Virtual Tape Server on AIX?

     Nathan,

     we have just that running in a Pilot, everything works as designed no
     functional caveats when running, in our case, an NMS attached to the
     VTS hanging on to two 3590's.
     Initially there were problems getting the library manager attached to
     the NSM using the RS232 connection option, seemed the cable was to
     long and had to do some converting to RS422 or the like.

     This was the good part the bad part is that we've had a lot of
     technical problems with the 3590's, bundles of I/O errors, tapes that
     could not be read or written. The I/O errors and tape problems we
     could handle (nothing the CE's couldn't fix) what we couldn't handle
     were the core dumps (a few times a day) that TSM generated as soon as
     1 of the drives starting churning out harware errors. It took IBM a
     few weeks to stabilize the configuration, partly by man handling the
     drives (all the right microcode, removed that damned cleaning scraper)
     and installing some necessary AIX 4.3.3 fix packs.

     But on the whole everything is working as designed, that is, uptil now
     no conflicts with the VTS.


     regards Walter Ridderhof

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Subject: TSM and Virtual Tape Server on AIX?
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> at INET-1
Date:    2/24/00 10:00 AM


Hi,

Is anyone sharing VTS between a mainframe system and RS/6000 while using TSM
on RS/6000?

Is there anybody using TSM and VTS at all? and willing to share his
experience?

Thanks,

Nathan Himmel

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