Hi, Farren -

The simplest approach is to do a DEFine Volume to assign K tapes to the
desired storage pool: assigned volumes are used before Scratches. The
downside is that the tapes remain assigned to the stgpool until deleted,
which may be fine for you. You would additionally want to at least
temporarily mark any Filling J tapes as read-only. The alternative is to
either use UPDate LIBVolume to set J tapes to private for a while or
perform
CHECKOut LIBVolume with REMove=No on the J tapes, then check them
back in
as scratch later.

It would be kind of nice if the product allowed assigning usage priority
values to volumes, to allow individual volumes or a class of volumes to
be used ahead of others.

  Richard Sims

On Jun 17, 2005, at 4:57 AM, Farren Minns wrote:

Hi all

Is there a way to issue the move data command for a volume such
that you
can specify the volume you want to move the data to? The reason I
ask is
that I have one on-site tapepool (all 3590 J tapes), and I want to
start
adding some K tapes (extended capacity), to the mix. For this
reason I want
to start doing some manual moving of data from the J tapes to the K
tapes.
I still need to allow TSM to use the available scratch J tapes as well
though, so I don't want to have to eject them all from the library.

As far as I can tell from the documentation, the only option I have
is to
issue the stgpool that I want to copy to (or in this case leave it
blank as
I'm going to be copying within the same pool anyway).