At 11:57 AM 2/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>     I got some good information from a couple of you on how you get tapes
>for offsite movement ejected from your IBM 3494 library (with an AIX ADSM
>server) - thanks for that!  Now, can any of you that are sending tapes
>offsite with an AIX server clue me in on how you are managing the tapes
>while they're offsite??  I.E., how do you know when to bring them back?
>How do you alert your offsite location to send them back?  I'm basically an
>MVS'er, and am totally lost without a tape management system!  Do some of
>you have homegrown TMS's or what?
>
>                         Thanks in advance,
>
>                         Ginny
>

This is how I communicate with our tape system (human variety):

>
>dsmadmc -id=admin -password=admin q vol stg=off* acc=readw > /tmp/tapes.out
>mail -s "New Tapes for Vault" CSM-PRODUCTION AT listhost.uchicago DOT edu <
/tmp/tapes.out

>dsmadmc -id=admin -password=admin q vol stat=emp > /tmp/tapes.in
>mail -s "Old Tapes from Vault" CSM-PRODUCTION AT listhost.uchicago DOT edu <
/tmp/tapes.in
>

Offsites are readied on Sunday, and these commands are run at 7:30 Monday
morning.  An operator uses a remove command to checkout the first "New"
list to be sent to storage.  The second list is sent to the storage people,
who send those tapes back to be checked in.  Our staff, totally MVS types,
think its a TMS they're dealing with.


Fred Johanson
System Administrator, ADSM
S.E.A.
University of Chicago
773-702-8464