Hi Ginny,
     I also am an MVS person.  We have a homegrown tape management system
     on our mvs system.  The home grown system was modified to handle the
     adsm server we were running under mvs.  When we implemented an
     additional ADSM server on AIX I decided to use the mvs tape management
     system to handle the offsite processing of the aix tapes.  I use ftp
     to copy the volume history file to my mvs system, then use the adsm
     administrative client on my mvs system to do a query of the copypool
     tapes, redirecting the output to a data set.  I use this data for my
     mvs tape management system.  I'm not sure if you could do the same
     thing with RMM or CAs tape management systems.
     Jim Sporer



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Subject: More Questions on DR Without DRM
Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>  at IPNET
Date:    2/22/99 11:57 AM


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