Barcode label is not TSM label. You can use barcodes as source for TSM tape 
labels (labelsource), to speed up inventory and for some other operations - but 
you dont have to if you want. So you shouldn't have any problems with old tapes.

V.J.
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Odesílatel: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] za uživatele 
Shawn Drew [shawn.drew AT AMERICAS.BNPPARIBAS DOT COM]
Odesláno: 19. března 2010 20:19
Komu: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Předmět: [ADSM-L] Rename volumes or other workaround

A few years ago, when TSM was first implemented here, the ADIC i2000 was
set so that the L3 suffix was not passed to TSM.
For many reasons I would like to change this to include the suffix.

The main problem I see is that when we need to read from any of the old
tapes, TSM will look for the old tape label.

The only way I could imagine doing this is by partitioning the library and
hoping that it will let me have a different barcode rule for each
partition.  Then, migrate the data from one partition (without the suffix)
to the new partition (with the suffix)
After that, I would have to redefine all of our backupsets and migrate all
of our (thousands of tapes) ndmp data.

In other words, I am NOT going to do that.   Is there any, possibly
undocumented,  way to rename the volumes in TSM 5.5?


Regards,
Shawn
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Shawn Drew


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