Sorry for the omission, we are running ADSM on AIX 4.1, using an STK
9710 driven by ACSLS 5.1.1.
From the manual, I can't see any way to tell ADSM I have moved a tape
from one library to another.

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>From:  Jerry Lawson[SMTP:jlawson AT itthartford DOT com]
>Sent:  Thursday, January 23, 1997 8:34 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Moving storage volumes across libraries
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>From: INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
>Date: 1/22/97 6:07PM
>To: Jerry Lawson at ASUPO
>*To: *Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L at SNADGATE
>Subject: Moving storage volumes across libraries
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>Can you give us more details on your environment - what OS are you running,
>what kind of Library.
>
>In MVS - we do exactly what you propose - tapes are migrated out of our STK
>silos when they haven't been accessed in  a certain number of days.  We have
>done this two different ways - at first we had the unit parm on the devclass
>set to use a device type that would allow the tape to be mounted on a manual
>drive.  This worked, but caused allocation problems if not enough manual
>drives were available.  We then changed to a unit type that required tape
>mounts back in the silo.  If a tape has been moved out of the library, when a
>mount for it is issued, and the silo routines issue a WTOR to the operator,
>telling him which tape is needed back in the silo.  The operator puts the
>tape
>in the access port, and replies to the WTOR, and we're off and running.  In
>ou
>r shop, this works better.
>
>Jerry Lawson
>jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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>Author: INTERNET.OWNERAD
>Subject: Moving storage volumes across libraries
>01-22-97 06:07 PM
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>I have an automated tape library used by ADSM which will be out of
>capacity in a few months.
>
>I would like to take some of the cartridges out of that library and use
>them with stand-alone drives, i.,e, a "manual" tape library.
>
>Is there any way to move the cartridges as they are, without remounting
>them all and copying all the data?
>
>I would like to keep generating my backups into the automated library,
>and move full tapes out to the manual library as needed.
>