> Does anyone know of any tape management systems for tsm? Or how do most
> people track scratch tapes and how do you know how many scratch tapes will
> be needed??? Any help would be great

What platform will your TSM server run on? Different implementations take
very different approaches to tape management. In particular, the Unix and
Windows implementations mostly do their own tape management, while the
OS/390 implementation mostly leaves tape management to the operating system.