Also very happy and stable on 5.3.4.0. (You'd have already heard from me
here on this list if it wasn't!) Another reason to go to 5.3.4.0 is that
it fixes that nasty-sounding security exposure in TSM they've been
yammering about from IBM and even at secunia.com.

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
"Have you ever, like, tried to put together a bicycle in public? Or a
grill?" Astronauts David Wolf and Piers Sellers, explaining the
difficulties encountered in attaching equipment to the Space Station


On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Steve Roder wrote:

>>      I am updating the list about this problem in case anyone else gets
>> bit by it.
>>      Richard was right in a measure; we had a tape drive that was failing
>> to eject tapes properly.  The side effect, though, with TSM's library
>> inventory becoming corrupt, is a bug addressed by APAR IC50475.  It is
>> addressed in TSM 5.3.4, but we are at 5.3.2 today.
>>      We replace the offending tape drive and the problem has gone away
>> for now.  But I am still going to apply the TSM 5.3.4 level, because
>> otherwise I know it is going to come back again when I can least afford the
>> time to monkey with it.
>>      Can anyone tell me if TSM 5.3.4 is solid, or are there known
>> problems?  I apologize in advance if this question has already been
>> addressed on the list.
>
>We have two servers running 5.3.4 since 10/31 without any issues.
>
>Steve Roder
>University at Buffalo
>(spr AT buffalo DOT edu | (716)645-3564)
>