Hi, Wanda -

I don't believe there is any rule, per se: it is just the case that
the drive finally reaches end-of-volume (EOV - TSM msg ANR8341I).
This results in the subsequent data being written in a spanned
Segment on a new volume.

   Richard Sims

On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote:

Does anyone happen to know what rules TSM uses to decide when to
split a
backup file/aggregate across 2 tapes?
Or can you point me to a document?

(Management wants to know.)