This seems to be a change in behavior in 5.3. Both CHECKOUT LIBV and MOVE DRM 
with REM=BULK work somewhat differently. I notice that
on the checkouts a scan of the I/O BULK port is done first, then the tape is 
moved to an available port. On the fast 3584 library,
this doesn't add that much time to the whole process, but on a library with a 
much slower robot (like the 3583's) this really slows
things down. When the BULK I/O ports are all full you now get the prompt. We 
have had to change our vaulting scripts to only process
10 at a time for our 3584 and then send an alert that more tapes need to be 
processed.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:25 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: eject tapes from 3584

Well here is yet another new one for me. I run this to eject tapes and it 
creates a file that the mainframe uses to create a list of
tapes going to the vault. With the 3494 and TSM 5.2 there is nothing else to 
do. Today I ran this for the first time with a 3584 and
TSM 5.3.3 and only one tape ejected. When I checked the activity log I saw the 
message "ANR8322I 001:
Remove LTO volume T00003 from entry/exit port of library 3584LIB; issue 'REPLY' 
along with the request ID when ready."



I am assuming that changing remove=yes to remove=bulk will fix the issue of the 
system waiting for a reply and if the I/O port
becomes full it will continue to wait till they are removed and the port made 
available again. I am also assuming that if the 1 hour
time set elapses without the port clearing will also result in an incomplete 
process.



Feel free to reply if any assumptions are incorrect.



q drmedia  * wherestate=mo source=dbb CMDFILE=/tmp/checkout.txt CMD="&VOL&NL" 
FORMAT=CMD

move drmedia * wherestate=mo remove=yes tostate=courier source=dbb







Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

Email:  <mailto:geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com> geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com