Len, I do not know what the system exit is (it's been well over a decade
since I've written an exit -- on MVS -- and all that stuff is "paged out"
of memory :-) But if that would be sufficient (not sure you'd be able to
tell for what operation the tape was being requested), then maybe that's
the place to look.

Through the admin console, (a) how would you know for sure when a restore
is occurring, and (b) what messages would you look for, and by then, would
it be too late to the pre-fetch processing that Karin mentioned? With a
hypothetical exit, you'd be able to do pre-fetch processing *before* the
operation began.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-04-14
13:30:37:

> In article <20050414.125007.003945.NETNEWS AT VM.SAS DOT COM>, Andrew Raibeck
> <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM> says:
> >
> >Karin, TSM does not provide any exits for this purpose. The only exit
in
> >TSM is for logging TSM server events, but I don't see that that will
> >provide what you need.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Andy
> Andy could he not use the system exit or the output from the dsmadmc
> -console command to sense the tape mounts required and do his vts
> stuff with that info.
>
> len