On Monday IBM will be removing a leased 3494 and installing a replacement
3494. The library is shared with MVS but MVS has it's own set of tapes and
exits ignore my tapes(TSM 4.2.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3) when they are inserted.

It's been sugested I "checkout" all of my tapes, some 800 or so, probably
with a remove=no since a 10 slot I/O port would slow things down. IBM says
they need to remove all the tapes so they can re-level the library once they
put it together.

So now questions: (I am not concerned with the MVS side of things since
someone else takes care of that.)

Do I really need to do this?

If yes, is there an easy way to do this or amI going to have to struggle
through it?

How about getting them back in/available?

Should I be doing any TSM inventory?

If anyone ahs gone through this or has suggestions please, please send them.

Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com>
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
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