Jon, thanks for your answers:

> 1>  BRMS does all management and expiration of the files stored in TSM.
>
> 2>  The backup times were extremely slow.

  This doesn't look something you like to deal with...

>         In the end we removed the AS/400's from our environment.  Someday
> when we upgrade and have a 3494 library we try to add the AS/400s to TSM
> again, but this time backing up through Fibre.

  Last question: how do you backup your AS/400 machines now and how is the
  performance?

  Cheers,
  Henk ten Have.