>Today we attempted to explain TSM backup/archive policies to a group of
>DFSMS/HSMers and ARCSERVers...and the finer points of TSM backup policies
>didn't exactly come through with the clarity we had hoped---

I suspect you encountered some intellectual resistance as well.
You might have them take a look at salient chapters of the TSM Concepts
redbook and, for more depth, the information on policies in the Admin
Guide.  The whitepaper "Beyond backup toward storage management" gives
a good overall view of TSM's strategy for backups.

  Richard Sims, BU