The 3584 is pretty much an automatic tape mounter with bulk storage and
no real 'smarts'. If you want it to do something, you need to tell it.

I've got two perl scripts I use for checkout and checkin. The checkout
script finds all copy pool tapes with data on them and checks them out
(we don't use drm), updating the access to 'offsite' as it goes. It
pauses and waits for an 'enter' if there are more than 32 tapes to come
out -- we have the second I/O port -- and the assumption is that we
check out tapes just prior to taking them off-site.

The checkin script runs a 'checkin libv <library> search=bulk
checklabel=barcode stat=pri', does a 'reply' to the tsm-generated
prompt, and updates each volume as it is checked in to an access of
'readw'. We fill the I/O port and run the script; if there are more than
32 tapes to process, we do it a second time.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

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Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:32 AM
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Subject: 3584 checkin/checkout

I'm wondering if I'm missing anything in our setup of the 3584 as it
relates
to incoming and outgoing tapes. Currently the mainframe sends alerts to
the
operators when the I/O port is full on the 3494 and needs emptying. Once
empty the checkout of tapes can continues. I was wondering how others
manage
that on a 3584. Is there a way to send alerts when the port is full? I'd
hate to come in and find all the tapes were not ejected because the job
could not continue.



Second question relates to checking in tapes. On the 3494 you can insert
tapes to the I/O port and it automatically empties it and put tapes into
empty slots. I don't see this available with a 3584, but easily could
have
missed it, so I'm wondering if there is a way to change a setting on the
library or automate this.



Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

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