On Thursday 22 February 2001 05:16, you wrote:
> Environment is a 3466-C00 with a 3494 library and 3590-E1A drives. The
> symptoms are that the TSM Admin (me) just can't seem to understand that the
> number of tape drives being used is greater than the number of TSM
> processes (stg backup, stg reclaim and migration) plus the obvious number
> of recovers taking place. I recognize I must also consider TDP products. Is
> there a method to determine who/what is using tape drives???
>
Hi John,

in certain circumstances, e.g.depending on the policy, large files might be
sent direcly to tape bypassing the disk. This will occupy a tape drive with
appearing in the process list. Unfortunately, I do not know any method to
determine, is a session is currently using a tape drive.

Regards,

--
Joerg Nouvertne
Joerg Nouvertne
... who still runs ADSM 3.1, but who will take the new adventure TSM 4.1 soon.