Of course it can't be quite that simple. "move media" doesn't like to work
with tapes in Pending status. I guess that makes sense, the original reason
for "move media" is to hold mountable tapes outside the library, and pending
tapes aren't really mountable. I guess I will just check them out, then
check them back in....

- Kai.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Hintze
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Sent: 11/15/02 11:44 AM
Subject: more on moving atl

AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2

I currently have a 3494 ATL that I share with the mainframe. 3 3590K
drives are fibre attached to my aix. The ATL control is lan attached.

They want to move my tape drives and all my tapes to a new ATL.

As best I can tell if I just edit /etc/ibmatl.conf to use the new IP
address AIX and TSM should think nothing has changed since the drives are
physically moving too.

To move the tapes I think I need to "move media" the volumes to offsite.
With the "remove=yes" option it should eject the tapes. Then I check
them in again to the new library.

Is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks,
Kai.