On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Richard Sims wrote:

> > The problem is we're backing up up a lot of data.  Occasionally TSM will
> > use up all the tapes, leaving no scratch volumes. ...
>
> Periodically, we need to do 'q v acc=readonly stat=filling'.  Living with
> tapes means inevitable I/O errors, which cause TSM to mark the tape as
> ineligible for further writing until we do something about it.  If
> overlooked, the scratch pool can mysteriously dwindle, and valuable tape
> space can go to waste.

I wrote a perl script that runs every morning and parses a series of
dsmadmc commands to check for volumes in ReadOnly or Unavailable state, in
addition to checking for warning conditions (if db or log is > 90%) and
printing out lots of stats.  It's not pretty (is perl ever? :) ) but it
works.

later!
Ray
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Ray DeJean                                       http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Administrator               Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist              AIX Administration, AIX Support
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