Does your 3584 have the Advanced Library Management System (ALMS)
feature? If so, you could define two logical libraries and assign the
appropriate set of tapes to each logical library.

Rick

At 12:11 PM 2/4/2009, you wrote:

Define the one vol range as private volumes to the one storage pool;
define the other vol range as private volumes to the other storage
pool.  The "empty" volumes are your "scratch" tapes.

David

>>> Nicholas Rodolfich <NRodolfich AT CMAONTHEWEB DOT COM> 2/4/2009 12:31 PM >>>
Hello All,

Thanks for your help!!

I have a customer with 2 basic storage pool hiearchies for 2 different
business departments within the same library. There are 2 cartridge sets to
match, The tape labels have been ordered to reflect each department.as
below. With department A data on A0....L3. tapes and department B data on
B....L3 labeled tapes.

A00001L3 - A00999L3
B00001L3 - B00999L3

There is no library manager. Only 1 instance of TSM.

TSM 5.4 server on WIndows; IBM 3584 library; 6 x LTO3 drives

My questions are:
Am I missing something? How do I manage specific tape serial numbers in
specific storage pools?
How do I manage scratch tapes?

Thanks!

Nicholas