I have a set of perl/ksh scripts that have automated this.  They work well.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: bbullock [mailto:bbullock AT MICRON DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:35 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: multiple reclaim processes


        Yes, I believe that that's right, reclamations are one per
storagepool.

        The only way I know to get around it is to write a script/select
statement to look for the tapes that are the least utilized and do a "move
data" on those tapes. I have not automated the process, but have a simple
select that gives me a list of all the tapes and the "pct_reclaim" from the
volumes table. The "pct_reclaim" is the opposite of "% utilized", so it's
kind of a "% empty" value.

select volume_name, pct_reclaim, stgpool_name from  volumes where
status='FULL' order by 3,2

        I run this script when I want to predict how changing the
reclamation threshold on a storage pool will effect processing. i.e. It will
show me how many tapes are above a given threshold and would be reclaimed.

Thanks,
Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Malbrough, Demetrius [mailto:Demetrius.Malbrough AT TTIINC DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 12:58 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: multiple reclaim processes


Donald,

As far as I know, only one reclamation process per stgpool!

Regards,

Demetrius Malbrough
AIX Storage Specialist

-----Original Message-----
From: Levinson, Donald A. [mailto:dlevinso AT ACSALASKA DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:00 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: multiple reclaim processes


Is there a way to have multiple reclaim processes for the same storage pool?
It seems silly to have an 8 spindle library and only use two of them to try
to keep up with my reclaim processing.

TSM 5.1.1
AIX 4.3.3



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