My management would like to use the information in the cartridge memory on 3592 volumes to keep track of tape life. They have asked me to find out how to read this information. The best idea I have come up with so far is to place a tape drive offline to TSM, mount a tape on the drive, and use IBMtapeutil to execute 'logpage 30' and 'logpage 3D' subcommands. Is there a better way to do this?
We have a TSM 5.3.4.0 server running under mainframe Linux. The tape drives are FCP attached.
