I had the same problem but not digged too much. What I got was:
With IBM 7337 DLT library set of labels was already supplied - numbers 
A0001 through A0030.
Using bar-code printing program I was able to create labels B0001, B00002 
(6 symbols), CLEAN (only letters) and DLT-00 (using dash).
They were all recognised by bar-code reader in the library but TSM did not 
understood the last label and thought of it as not labelled.
I assumed TSM will work with any 5 or 6 symbols long label using capital 
letters and numbers and stating with a letter. This would be sufficient for 
our purposes so I've stopped there.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant





Juergen Heinrich <jheinrich AT VERDI-AG DOT COM> on 25.09.2001 12:00:25
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Subject:        Valid bar code labels used by TSM again

Hi:

Because were was no response to my last email, trying it again.

Our TSM Server is at level 4.1.4 and the OS is Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 
5.
We are using a ADIC 100 Scalar DLT Library in our TSM environment.

The Library PDF documentation says that the library can handle bar code 39 
only.
Regarding to this we have prepared labels for our tapes with a dash in the 
label
name.
So the bar code label look like:
EF-001 or
NB-040 or
L--001 or
HA-099

Using the onscreen menu of the library all the bar code labels are shown 
for
each filled slot.

If we are doing the labelling with:

label libv adic100lib search=yes labelsource=barcode checkin=scr

the TSM server says that the labels cannot be read.

We have looked in the TSM documentation again and have not found any
restrictions regarding
a dash as a symbol in a label name.

Does anyone can help?

Sincerly

Juergen Heinrich

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Systemsmanagement
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