I've used ADSM for years now, and just installed DRM last Feb. with no
problems
(MVS server, 2.0.13). IMHO, DRM does a good job of controlling the
media. Since
I run MVS, I use CA-1 along with DRM to control the tape movement, using
the
CA1 tape vault mgmt, but I've heard other people say they are just using
DRM and
are happy with it. The only pblms I've heard is that if you are using a
robotic tape
library and it's not an IBM flavor, the checkin and checkout of the
tapes from the
library takes a little more work.

The ADSM DRM manuals have a good write-up on media management. I believe
they are shipped on the CDROM with all the rest of the ADSM manuals
(they are
with MVS ADSM).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Lundgren [SMTP:dlundgren AT LONGABERGER DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 2:27 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      DRM.
>
> Greetings,
> I keep reading that ADSM controls media movement, but I haven't found
> any details on how this works.   Hopefully, DRM is the piece that
> produces the tape movement reports that tell when to move an archival
> tape offsite and when the information has expired and the tape is
> scratch.
>
> My problem now is that DRM wasn't installed when ADSM was loaded.
> Does anyone have experience in installing DRM separately?
>
> Thanks-in-advance,
> Dean