Recommended to use the Automatic Cleaning method.

It's in the Planning and Operator guides of both the 3583 and 3584.

Cheers, Suad
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 22/12/2006
02:14:32 PM:

> Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on
> pros/cons of using either the Automatic Cleaning method of the host
> library or the Tape cleaning management method of the TSM server.  We
are
> configuring  two 3584's to replace our four 3583 libraries.  Our
> environment is TSM 5.3x server on AIX  5.3 with LTO2 drives and LTO2
tapes
> in the libraries with each library configured as it's own single
> partition.