You can look in the volume history file to see the storage pool usage of the
volume. For the tape mount activity, look in the SUMMARY table. For non zOS
platforms, there is an entry for a TAPEMOUNT that shows the drive and
volser. But that is only as good as your SET SUMMARYRETENTION.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
David Stabler
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:03 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Tape History....


Is there a nice easy way to tell where a tape has been?

I'm experiencing about a 15-20% failure rate, over time, in tapes in my
3584 LTO (Ultrium, not DLT).  The tapes that are failing are from varied
vendors, but all are non-IBM tapes.  I'm afraid that one of the drives
is potentially causing physical harm (tapes sent off for analysis have
shown, in some cases, damage after 150ft) but I don't want to have IBM
just replace everthing without having an idea of what I'm after.

What could I do to gather that information?  I could run a nightly
script watching tape activity, of course, and keep that data, but I'm
wondering if Tivoli keeps that conveniently.



David Stabler, CATE/AIX, CNCE
Senior Systems Analyst