Thanks, Dan for the reminder..  This particular customer is a little DASD
strapped, so I always forget about that new feature.

How much space would they need to allocate on a reclamation DASD storage
pool, if they wanted to give it a try?  Is it some function of the tape
capacity?

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Matt Cleland                            mcleland AT msiinet DOT com
Matt Cleland                            mcleland AT msiinet DOT com
IBM Certified Specialist - ADSM
Midland Systems, Inc.                   (618) 345-0864
St. Louis, MO                           (618) 346-1779 FAX


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Dan Giles
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 11:29 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Multiple Tape Libraries
>
>
> Just a note on Matt's second paragraph dealing with reclamation. Actually,
> with version 3, you CAN use both drives for reclamation. In a sequential
> storage pool, you can point to another storage pool as a staging area for
> reclamation. Of course, reclamation would run lot faster if you pointed
> this staging area to a dasd pool. Also, you would have to make sure that
> the libraries did not try to run reclamation at the same time.
>
> Dan Giles
> Application Specialist
> Manulife Financial, Corporate
> Phone: 416-926-3549 Fax: 416-926-5234
>
>