I did the same thing. Our main TSM server was ADSM on MVS/zOS and we
migrated to AIX/Linux. I too had issues with the lack of tape management
features like offsite tape vault/slot management, especially since we have
5-servers sending tapes offsite into different areas of the same physical
vault. The courier would take hours to find the tapes to bring back based
on volser order, since they all came from one pile of tapes in the 3494
ATL.

I talked the TSMManager person into adding these features to his product.
Full vault slot management.  Even had him add an "onsite vault" management
process so that when tapes were kick out of the 3494 or LTO libraries but
not sent offsite, we could track them as well.

So now, the courier can just pull tape from Slots 1, 17, 25, 89.....

I recommend you get the free-trial of TSMManager
(http://www.tsmmanager.com)and play with it.

No, I do not work for them. Just a satisfied customer and beta tester and
constant "new feature" asker!

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Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University
Office of Technology Services
University Computing Center
e-mail: zforray AT vcu DOT edu
voice: 804-828-4807



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[ADSM-L] Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from
z/OS to AIX






With TSM on the mainframe, I have access to console message automation
and tape media management with CA-1 or RMM.

I understand that with AIX, I will no longer have these functions
provided for me.  On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe
products.  TSM on z/OS has no knowledge about the tape library on z/OS
other than the number of drives and the device types. SMS rules decides
on the tape media is correct and the system assign the tape drives. What
new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX.  z/OS version of TSM has
no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other
unique Unix thing.

I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console
messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages.  How
would I set up something similar in AIX?  Is there a joblog for the TSM
process similar to the z/OS STC message log?

Is there a white paper for someone making a similar transition?

With z/OS a lot of things are taken for granted or are handle by other
products.