Does your 3584 have the Advanced Library Management System (ALMS) feature? If so, you could define two logical libraries and assign the appropriate set of tapes to each logical library.
Rick At 12:11 PM 2/4/2009, you wrote:
Define the one vol range as private volumes to the one storage pool; define the other vol range as private volumes to the other storage pool. The "empty" volumes are your "scratch" tapes. David >>> Nicholas Rodolfich <[email protected]> 2/4/2009 12:31 PM >>> Hello All, Thanks for your help!! I have a customer with 2 basic storage pool hiearchies for 2 different business departments within the same library. There are 2 cartridge sets to match, The tape labels have been ordered to reflect each department.as below. With department A data on A0....L3. tapes and department B data on B....L3 labeled tapes. A00001L3 - A00999L3 B00001L3 - B00999L3 There is no library manager. Only 1 instance of TSM. TSM 5.4 server on WIndows; IBM 3584 library; 6 x LTO3 drives My questions are: Am I missing something? How do I manage specific tape serial numbers in specific storage pools? How do I manage scratch tapes? Thanks! Nicholas
