I think TSM won't let you vary a drive offline that is in use.

David Longo

>>> deehre01 AT LOUISVILLE DOT EDU 10/24/02 02:54PM >>>
Anyone know what happens when you have processes/sessions running and
using tape drives and vary the drives offline with the command:
  update drive LIB DRIVE online=no

Do the tapes get dismounted?  Processes/sessions terminate?  Data
corrupted?

3590 drives in a 3494 library running TSM 5.1.1.6 on AIX 5.1 if it
makes any difference.

David Ehresman


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