I'm looking for a second opinion, caveats and any "we've been there
(and its good/bad)" about tape sharing .  Sharing that's NOT SAN stuff.

In speaking with a level 1 (1.5-2!) TSM/3466 support person about
something else, we got around to the topic of 3590's cabled to two systesm
and he said I could have all four tape drives (3590-E1A's) online to both
3466 NSMs and they will just go into POLLING mode until a drive becomes
available. AIX/TSM can play NICE-NICE with shared drives!!(??!)

And all I need to do is put 3494SHared Yes in both server options files.

Does this work?  Work well?  Any hang-ups? Crashes?  Gothchas??

As long as I scheduled things so that there's little or no drive
contention does it work?

thanks ... joe.f.

Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
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