Hi, Karel -

The IBM TotalStorage Tape Device Drivers: Programming Reference
manual defines the low-level ingredients of tape processing, and
there the volser storage field can accommodate 8 chars.

In looking at the Atape.fixlist file, I note level entry:
 9.2.9.0   Add SMIT option to set 3584 TSM barcode length for
Ultrium 1/2 media
You might look into your AIX SMIT and see if yours presents that
capability.

Note, however, that it is best to use six characters, as per the TSM
Implemenation Guide redbook:
"Although IBM Tivoli Storage Manager allows you to use a volume
 identification longer than six characters, we strongly recommend
that you use
 up to six alphanumeric characters for the label (also known as
VOLSER or
 Volume ID). This should be compatible with other ANSI styled label
systems.".
(The first 6 chars of the label are the volser/volid, the last 2 are
the media identifier, per "IBM LTO Ultrium Cartridge Label
Specification", IBM site item S7000429.)

   Richard Sims

On Jul 3, 2005, at 6:42 AM, Bos, Karel wrote:

Hi,

We have expanded our 3584 library with one frame and partitioned the
library into 2 logical libraries. One of these partitions is use by
our
"old" wintel ITSM environment, the other is for our new AIX ITSM
server.


The wintel ITSM servers are reading all the 8 characters of the LTO
labels, the AIX server doesn't read more than 6 characters.

From the documentation of the 3584 library, it sounds like you
turn on

or off this 6 character feature for the total library and all
connected
servers. So the problem must be in AIX and possible the Atape driver,
right?

From Google searches, IBM website and so on, I cannot find any
related

info on how to tell AIX to read all 8 characters of the barcode, so it
should be the library.. Right??

Please, anyone can solve this and tell me where I am going wrong?

Wintel ITSM server 5.2.4.1 :     000001L1
AIX ITSM server 5.3.1.2:         000006


Regards,

Karel