Hi I'm looking at setting up the famous DIRMC trick, with a primary sequential pool on disk. I have a couple of questions:
1) Is it a requirement to have the recommended setup DIRPOOL primary DISK: NEXTPOOL->DIRFILE DIRFILE primary SEQUENTIAL on DISK or can we have our DIRMC point straight to the DIRFILE primary SEQUENTIAL on DISK? If it's not actually requred, are there nevertheless any benefits from having 2 pools? 2) Our current setup is DIRPOOL primary DISK: NEXTPOOL->DIRFILE TAPEPOOL primary SEQUENTIAL on TAPE Unfortunately we share the TAPEPOOL with real files, and some of the directory information has been migrated into TAPEPOOL. Can anyone think of a way of retrieving just the directories from the TAPEPOOL into the DIRPOOL/DIRFILE pools when it's set up? One hope that struck me is that if we do a MOVE DATA on volumes in TAPEPOOL to other volumes in TAPEPOOL, will the DIRMC info be taken into account and directories automagically moved back into DIRPOOL/DIRFILE pools, or am I too optimistic? Our server is TSM 4.2.2.7 on AIX 4.3.3, but if there are any applicable features newly available in TSM v5 I'd be interested, as we're planning to upgrade. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro
