On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Keith Arbogast wrote:

... A technical rep told us, more or less, "No
one is making copy pools with this new technology. They do not copy
tapes from primary storage pools to a copy pool." ...

Well, an offsite disaster recovery tape set is a copy pool, and I
suspect that many companies would desire to recover from a disaster.

Perhaps the IBM rep means an onsite copy of data?  In any case, no
technology is infallible, so...

I doubt that TSM management would agree with that rep.  Nor would IBM
Marketing, I imagine, as IBM does sell tapes.  ;-)

   Richard Sims