Those of you who are not interested please excuse the off topic post - this forum is
the best source of 3494 information around.
I have an AS400 connected to two drives in the 3494 which I theoretically control. I
use the other two drives for TSM on an RS6000. This AS400 is not configured to
communicate with the library and they are having trouble doing so - for the last 9
months. They back up by opening the library and inserting tapes directly into the
drives.
This manual activity is causing much grief, both to the mechanics of the library and
various logical problems that it causes.
To circumvent the problem, I would like to use the "Stand Alone Device" facility of
the library to set up their drives as autoloaders. I can arrange that their tapes are
automatically assigned to a library category on insert, the first tape is
automatically loaded and the category changed on dismount. The only other problem to
solve is how to eject all of the tapes in the dismounted category on demand from the
library console.
e.g. tapes come in as category 100 and change to 101 on dismount. How do I eject all
category 101 tapes from the library console. I know that I could use MTLIB from my
box to do it, but there is lots of politics and several levels of outsourcing involved
here so I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.
If you have any ideas, or know of a better place to ask, please let me know.
Thanks
Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
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