Hi Brian,
One thing I found good was running tdpoconf showenv.

I had a few problems getting it going not knowing
where the dsm.sys was located but once I did that I
sorted out my configurations and everything seems to
work except for a problem with my password which
should be easy enough to resolve.

backup directly to tape, but I
> get the following error during RMAN connect and
> script execution:
>
>    Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
>
> RMAN-06005: connected to target database: AIS
> (DBID=103055654)
> RMAN-06008: connected to recovery catalog database
>
> RMAN> run
> 2> {
> 3>   allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape' parms
> 4>
>
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.opt)';
> 5>   allocate channel t2 type 'sbt_tape' parms
> 6>
>
'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin/tdpo.opt)';
> 7>
> 8>   backup
> 9>      filesperset 5
> 10>      format 'df_%t_%s_%p'
> 11>      (database);
> 12>
> 13>   release channel t1;
> 14>   release channel t2;
> 15> }
> 16>


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