The drives. They signal when they need a clean, and the 3494 library manager mounts the cleaning cartridge.
Doesn't matter which type/how many hosts. Cleaning tapes aren't segregated by host, either. They just live in the 3494, as many as you want, in data cells. (I verified this last week, when we had to run in manual mode a while with me acting as "robot"). -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Who controls the CLEAN cycle ? I have always wondered about this but could not find a difinitve answer. Who controls/manages the 3590 tape drive cleaning, in a 3494, when the library is shared between z/OS/MVS and TSM on AIX and the drives used by the AIX system are FC attached and installed as "open systems" drives ? I ask this since a recent perusal of the activity log of the AIX TSM server showed messages that said "tape drive needs to be cleaned" ?
