We have a 5.4.2.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. We have
five tape drives available for our primary tape storage pool and
five tape drives available for our copy storage pool. We run offsite
tape reclaimation with 'maxproc=5'. If a client runs a restore while
off reclamation is going on, TSM will take a tape drive away from
reclamation. This is done by cancelling a reclamation process, rather
than having a process go into mount point wait. TSM does not start a
replacement process when this happens. A restore that runs for a
couple of minutes can leave a pair of tape drives sitting idle for
hours. Is there any configuration setting or release level upgrade
that will cause TSM to handle this situation more intelligently?