Hi Andrew. This works exactly as advertised. The purpose for the script is
not to have tapes left behind in the wall of the library when you have
more than 10 tapes to be moved. So, you reply 9 times to fill the 10 IO
slots, remove the tapes, then reply 10 more times to get the next batch of
ten tapes, and so on. When you have 10 tapes or fewer, you had used a
script called DRMREMOVE which specified remove=bulk ( and you did not have
to reply). If you used this script with more than 10 tapes, the additional
tapes would have been left in their slots and you would see "remove at
your convenience" message as result of the mode drmedia.
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remove=untileefull only doing one tape at a time






Our MOVE DRMMEDIA command for our 3584 library in cases of more than 10
tapes has just started putting the tapes one at a time in the Entry/Exit
port and waiting for a reply for each one. It used to fire ten in and
then ask for a reply. I'm at a loss to figure out why as the script
hasn't changed. We've got TSM 5.2.3.2 on Win2K. Can anyone suggest
something?

Here's the full script:

DRMREMOVE_GT_10

MOVE DRMEDIA * WHERESTATE=MOUNTABLE SOURCE=DBBACKUP TOSTATE=VAULT
APPEND=NO WAIT=yes REMOVE=untileefull prepare wait=yes



Andrew Ferris
Network Support Analyst
iCAPTURE Research Centre
University of British Columbia