We are considering to share an IBM 3494 tape library among 3 Tivoli
servers, two of the servers are at TSM 4.1.2 and one is at 4.1.3.
The library has six 3590 E1A tape drives.
As today the three servers are connected to the library via RS232 serial
connection, and SCSI to the tape drives. Some scripts have been written to
allocate-deallocate tape drives to the servers depending on the time of the
day.
I would like to here from people that have one or more 3494 library shared
among TSM servers.
Particularly,
   Are all the servers connected to the library?
   What is the connection the TSM servers have to the library?
   TCP/IP or RS232?
   What is the connection the servers have to the tape drives?
   FC or SCSI?
   Are you happy with the library sharing solution?
   Did you have to set a Library Manager Server and make the rest of the
   servers Library Clients?
   Any documents I must read?
   Please give an explanation of the steps that were followed to share the
   library.

Thanks,
Manuel J. Sanchez
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