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Who is Affected: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) 5.2 for Solaris and
HP-UX customers using IBM 3584, 3583, 3582, or 3581 tape libraries with
Ultrium LTO tape drives.
Problem: Eight character volume names are being returned for the barcode
label from the tape library. Previous ITSM releases labeled these volumes
with six character volume names from the barcode label. This problem
causes the barcode labels to not match the labels written to the tape
volume for customers upgrading to ITSM 5.2 if the volume was labeled at a
previous level and checked in with ITSM 5.2. When this condition is
encountered on a scratch volume the status is changed to private and the
operation tries to select another scratch volume.
Recommendation: First upgrade to the following device driver levels or
higher for the tape library.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11.0_PCI/atdd.1.9.0.9.bin
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11.0_PCI/atdd.fixlist
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11i_PCI/atdd.3.1.0.9.bin
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11i_PCI/atdd.fixlist
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Solaris/IBMtape.4.0.7.7.bin
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Solaris/IBMtape.fixlist
If upgrading is not possible at this time do not use barcodes for the LABEL
LIBVOL, CHECKIN LIBVOL, or AUDIT LIBRARY commands in order to prevent
problems with six character volumes and to prevent the creation of more
eight character volume names. Instead, explicitly specify a 6 character
label name. For example, on the LABEL LIBVOL command, specify the 6
character label on the media as the volume name rather than use the
barcode option.
After upgrading no further action is required if all volumes from the
output of QUERY LIBVOL, QUERY VOLUME, and QUERY VOLHISTORY have six
character volume names. Volumes with eight character volumes names can
still be used, but the CHECKIN LIBVOL and AUDIT LIBRARY commands with
barcodes cannot be used on theses volumes. To re-label the volumes to six
character volume names wait for the volume to return to scratch or move the
data off the volume using the MOVE DATA command, checkout the volume from
ITSM using the CHECKOUT LIBVOL command, and label the volume using the
LABEL LIBVOL command.
Cordially,
Sam J. Giallanza
Tivoli Certified Consultant
giallanz AT us.ibm DOT com
520.799.5512
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