Hello,

We have been running TSM on MVS for 15 years, using CA-1 as our Tape Management 
system without any problems, but we have recently been working on moving to TSM 
on AIX. We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we are using our new TSM server as 
the Library Manager. We also are using TSMManager and its Vaulting Manager.

We send our tapes off-site on a weekly basis and when tapes are returned they 
go to another area in our building for an extra week before being returned to 
the Tape Library. This leaves a gap of 10 days between the time the Check-in 
report was originally run to when the tapes are actually available for use 
again.

Does anyone have a clever way to handle this so that the tapes are once again 
made available to the Library Manager? We are finding that the tapes go into 
the library but are left in import mode. Do we need to rerun the Check-in?

Any insights into how others are handling similar situations, would be greatly 
appreciated.

Sincerely,

Pam


Pam Pagnotta
Sr. Systems Engineer
Energy Enterprise Solutions (EES), LLC
Supporting IM-621.1, Enterprise Service Center East
Office: 301-903-5508
Mobile: 301-326-7296
Email: pam.pagnotta AT hq.doe DOT gov
Location: USA (EST/EDT)