Gosh!  Now that I find I'm not alone and that someone says this is not
a bad idea, then maybe we should ask IBM to 'factor' this into the logic
and enable a knob to be available for tuning this.

Its annoying for me to have to take time every day or so to count the users,
look at the tape utilization and guess at how many more tapes to add to the
pool for the next week.
                               .. joe.f.
P.S.  Its really a little more complicated than I initially let on.  You have
to deduct 1 tape for each user that is greater than the tape capacity, etc.
Further investigation shows we have as many as 4 or 5 users loaded on 1 tape.

On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:04:21 EST Paul Zarnowski said:
>On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:30:17 PST Joseph A. Faracchio said:
>>We find the compromise to just having collocation on to work well for us.
>>
>>We have collocation on but keep the number of tapes available to be
>>roughly half to 1/3 of the users in the system.   So ADSM 'doubles up'
>>the tapes putting 2 or sometimes 3 users on a tape.
>>
>>So we have collocation but with only 1/3 of the tapes needed and requested.
>>
>>...joe.f.
>
>We do the same thing, out of necessity.  As you get into larger capacity
>tape formats, this is the only way to go.  You can't afford to put just
>one Mac user on a 10 or 20GB tape!