Slot get failure (slot will not release cartridge). See identifying Device
type on page 260.
Note: A trailer record will contain information to identify the correct slot.
A worn Universal gripper cage could result in get errors. See worn Universal
gripper cage on page 734.
The pages could be
Hello Geoff,
It looks like you might have a problem that we had this past month.
Do you have at least one Ethernet connection to the library set up so that you
can use the web interface. It sounds like you might.
We had parts of the gripper replaced multiple times. We upgraded the firmware
The ese programs are exchange utils. This is a std part of the exchange backup.
After the snapshot is taken this util makes sure that the data in the snapshot
is good. In the pre vss backups this check was done by the online api.
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Hello Gary,
Two thoughts.
1) if you use the virtualnodename option, I do not think that you have to use
the set access option.
2) I believe that you can use a global admin userid, a client admin userid or
the by default the client nodename. See the text below in which just hitting
enter
Howard did you update all the lto-2 carts to read/only?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard
Coles
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:16 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives
We first
Did you upgrade the tape drivers?
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D. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for TSMscsi tape
) 750-8721
Original Message
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RedHat 5.2 to 5.4 upgrade causes problems for
TSMscsi tape drivers
From: Len Boyle len.bo...@sas.com
Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 8:53 pm
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Did you upgrade the tape drivers?
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From
I have not seen this error message before.
I think that if you remove the following line from the opt file your errors
will go away.
VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /
len
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Choate
Sent: Friday, April
You can think of open solaris relates to solaris as fedora is to red hat Linux.
It is a test bed for the future releases of solaris. Open Solaris is both x86
and sparc.
Last year they were saying that most of a release of open solaris this year
would become solaris 11. I am not sure if this
Are backupexec and tsm used for the same client at the same time.
If so I believe that one problem, or at least is the reset of the archive bit
by backupexec. I seem to remember that this would trigger a backup by tsm.
In general I believe that tsm will backup a file if the file
We have alms configured, so we let the library do the cleaning.
If we have a semi-bad tape drive we can end up going thru a cleaning cart.
We have configured the ts3500 to send snmp traps to a server which handles the
traps.
One of them indicates that a cleaning cart has expired. The trap
If the 3584 library is doing the cleanings, the backup software never sees the
cleaning cart(s).
But one might be able to do this an snmp get command.
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Richard Sims
Sent: Wednesday, March 17,
Steven,
What is the filesystem type for the usb drive?
Do you have any messages in the os logs?
Could the filesystem be running out of inodes?
len
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Haigh
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010
Tapes used to be made unavailable if you had a mount in process and the tsm
proc that requested the tape was cancelled.
len
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Huebschman, George J.
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:51 PM
To:
Good Day Mario,
After the link was created did you bounce the oracle data base. I am not sure
if it has changed, or different with the latest TSM client. But I was told that
the Oracle data base loads the libobk.so when it starts up and unless you
bounce Oracle it will not reload the file to
We are working on setting up encryption with LTO4's and we are using multiple
backup products so there are several different methods to control encryption.
Several emails in the recent past talk about how to encrypt or not using the
tools within TSM.
If you are not using tsm's application
Hello Gary,
I believe that you are correct in that TSM does not support more than one
option set per client.
But you might be able to do what you want at the source level.
You might have a file named general.options
And a file namedwebsrv.options.
Then at the os level you could
Keith,
I do not remember seeing differences between the Library Error Logs and the Web
Specialist interface. But I have found that the time shown in the Web
Specialist is not always correct. You can change the time in Library--Date and
Time
Panel.
len
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From: ADSM:
Keith did you check the date and time from the front panel or via the web
interface?
Also the time zone setting?
len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Keith
Arbogast
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 4:57 PM
To:
Hello Bob,
A different look at your comment about channel attached tape support for Linux.
I have not worked with Linux on Z, but I assume from you comment that Linux on
Z supports fibre tape drives.
If so then the fix to sharing tape drives between z/os and Linux on z should be
doable with
Hello Bryan,
This is an interesting topic. Here are several thoughts and questions.
Licensing for NetBackup is also based on the class of the server and the class
of the clients.
The pricing keeps changing as some things that used to have a separate optional
cost are merged into the base
We have seen this problem when the tape drive is powered off then back on. It
appears that the tape driver is messed up after this power cycle.
It does not happen that often, so the fixing procedure has not been totally
worked out. This is with the ibm tape drivers on windows.
If in the changer
I am not sure how tsm does it. But if one is using another backup product to do
the NDMP backups on a netapp filer, you have to reference a snapshot that
already exists (ex hourly.0) or the backup product and ask for a snapshot to be
created for the backup. We started using this other product
Greetings Mehdi
The missing part is a client that understands the z/os file systems and also
understands the TSM api.
There is a client for the OEMVS filesystems that will work with an open TSM
server, but not the other z/os file systems.
Regards len boyle
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From
JR
Are you using any options or features of the dsmc command that are not
available with the dsm gui command.
If I remember correctly the gui will allow multiple file systems to be selected
and will optimize the tape mounts.
I wonder if one starts multiple dsmc restores at the same time
If one is using the ibm 3584(aka TS3500) then the wwn does not changes on a
straight up swap-out. The wwn goes with the slot in the library used to hold
the tape drive and not the tape drive itself. And with lto-3 tape drives and
better, Our IBM ce's have to update the new tape drive with the
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Of
Len Boyle
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:08 AM
To: ADSM
Bill
Can you tell us more about the CIMOM agent.
Thanks len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bill
Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:38 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ALMS benefit to shared-library
Henrik, when we first installed lto-4 tape drives, we had a few problems with
them. The IBM ce downloaded a dump of data from the tape drive and send that on
to the higher level support folks. They asked to update the firmware, which was
just release. This help us greatly.
Our tape drives are
] On Behalf Of
Len Boyle
Sent: 08 July 2009 18:30
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Replacing tape drives (or there has to be a
better way)
In fact we found out that for lto-3 and lto-4 tape drives in an IBM 3584
library, it is required that they change the serial number to match
In fact we found out that for lto-3 and lto-4 tape drives in an IBM 3584
library, it is required that they change the serial number to match the old
tape drive. Because IBM tracks the drives by serial number for maint contracts.
This we found when the serial numbers that we send in for a maint
Hello Bill,
As other have posted, TSM should handle the backups without problems related to
the use of different network domains.
But. You might want to look at why there are different domains. Might you
expect that in the future that one or more of the 3 sister companies might be
sold or
Hello Jane,
We have not seen this problem, but we are using 6chars followed by the L1 chars
for a total of 8 chars.
One thing you can check is if your library supports 10 char volsers.
I remember seeing a note that a past firmware update for the 3584 was adding
support for 10 char barcode
Early on in the use of our first 3584 we had the problem and we had the ce
talking about doing the eraser procedure.
The interesting think was that the tapes in question and their labels were
purchased from IBM.
We found that a few firmware updates and slowing down the bar code scan rate
We use the subfile feature but not for vm's.
And it does appear to still be limited to 2 gig.
Someone from dev posted a long time ago that it was a limit due to the ms api
that tsm uses to map the files in memory.
I have never seen any message that they were going to lift this limit.
I had hope
Hello Eric,
If the windows folks are using DPM I suspect that they are using the Microsoft
Hyper-V support and not vmware. I have not heard that TSM support Hyper-V
client per say.
When DPM first came out they only supported backing up to disk. To move the
disk backups to tape required
Normally for TSM clients you license to run the client but not a specific
version. So one would not thing that you would be charged again. In the past
one was able to connect a z/os client to a non-z/os server.
The more interesting question is there a 6.1 z/os client. If not will there be
Hello Michael,
This is a semi wild guess, If this was windows I would suggest you look at the
Unicode setting for the filespace. It has been a while since I have had a
novell client so I am not sure if they support UNICODE or not and what is the
max path and segment length for the novell
/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/179205art_pos=2
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=1
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From: Len Boyle
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:49 PM
To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Subject: RE: LTO for long term archiving
Over ten years ago I
Over ten years ago I was at a presentation by a MD that was proposing the
creation of a xml standard for medical records to help with this. His personal
stake was in making it easier to use historical medical records for medical
research.
Also along these lines I remember seeing a small
Rick,
If your hostnames are unique in of themselves, you can leave the nodename out
of the dsm.opt file. TSM will use the hostname for the tsm nodename.
If you have clients with the name of xyz.abc.com and xyz.qxr.com then you would
have a problem with this scheme.
len
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Tom,
Have you looked at the library logs via the library web interface to see if the
cause of the problem is logged?
len
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Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:28 AM
To:
Do a q req
Note the request number then do a
Reply num
See help query request and help reply
len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario
Behring
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re:
Good Afternoon,
Can we assume as the this is a cluster, that you are backing up the passive
node of the exchange cluster.
We are using a different product for exchange backups, but there are at least
two problems that can cause problems with the passive node backup.
For one of them we see
Christian
Does this support also include acl's.
Thanks len
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Christian Svensson
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: RedHat GFS
Hi David,
TSM
What happens if you are using subfilebackup. Will it just backup the acl's as
the data blocks have not changed?
len
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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 4:26 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject:
Howard,
Can you give the list a little more details on the Exchange system backup of
1.2 TB in about 4 or so hours.
How many exchange storage groups do you have and how many of them backup up in
parallel?
How large are they?
Are you using multiple nics of 1gig each or a 10gig nic?
Thanks
You can run the commands from a script external of tsm.
Something like perl, rexx, A unix shell, or windows powershell.
You can run the dsmc command from the script where the script process the
output of the command, the script would then build one or more scripts to be
run from within the
Good Morning Joe,
We have been running into the same issue. We did not know about turning off and
on the IP Port.
We have been resetting the library to fix the problem. Luckily it does not
happen all the time.
IBM did tell us that they thought that things would improve if we upgraded to
Zoltan,
Can you give a little more detail about the disk subsystem. What is the make
and model?
San or local?, raid?, special firmware features? Etc.?
What service pack is Windows 2003 at? Have you installed the vss patches from
last 2007?
len
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There is a least one alternative method of letting the Operators know that the
i/o station is full and one method of not worrying about the i/o station being
full in the numbers that you are using.
1) You can turn on snmp traps for the library. One of the traps that the
library generates is
Our mvs said that you can buy a used standalone 3590H drive for about $4k.
That might be the simplest way to move the data. After you finish you can sell
it to someone else.
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McConaghy
Sent:
It goes back at least this far.
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS296-261/index.html
we ordered the oe client against our vm adsm server way back in the 90's. It
was not too hard to get the bits as we could order the feature code for a 3480
cart.
Since that time we moved to an
Hello Damon
You can use a command like this to find out when the backup command is running.
Then run a query actl with a small delta of time less then the time reported
and you should see the method used to issue the command. As the backup command
can be shorted to BA you might have to vary
Hello Paul
I am taking a few guesses here.
A recovery partition.
A dual boot machine and it is an alt os partition
len
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Zarnowski
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:05 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
is confused.
Thanks len boyle
Of
Len Boyle
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: z/os file system backup support
Good Morning,
We have been using an ADSM/TSM windows server to backup up several MVS
(aka z/os) open edition file systems for a number of years.
A reseller told me that IBM
I believe there is a mistake here.
I believe that the cache is only used to cache the ccw's for blocks. The reason
for the 2gig limit was given a long time ago on this list by a TSM dev, they
use a windows api to map the file in virtual memory for i/o. The api they use
has the 2 gig limit.
We
The tape erase function is written up in the tape driver prog ref.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Doc/IBM_Tape_Driver_PROGREF.pdf
But it does not talk of HIPPA.
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John
Sent:
Hello Nick,
I did not know that barcodes make the layout was any different than using the
web interface or the front panel.
I thought that both the tape drives and the slots each had to be one sequence
of drives or slots. And if you wanted to add or subtract, unless the change was
to the
Hello Tom
Interesting that the 3584 would load the tape in the gripper, you would think
that it would know what is in the I/O door.
I do not believe that we have seen this problem. We have seen tapes stuck in
the gripper, or gripper/hand hardware failures. But having a tape stuck in the
Hello Michael,
I should add the comment that I do not know the correct answer to this
question.
But given that. If I read the following url correctly The Linux TSM client does
not support unicode at this time. If the filenames are in unicode. If they are
just using chars code over 128 then
Hello Avy,
You can use the query restore command.
Also you should be able to set up the windows admin gui for an Linux TSM
server, unless they have changed something that I missed.
len
-help query restore -
tsm: ADSMNT04help query restore
QUERY RESTORE
QUERY
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Hello David,
Try the tsm server command
dismount vol volname
See Help dismount vol
len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Browne
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Dismount
Michael,
Look at the b option to increase your blocking size. Use man tar on your host
to check for the fine print. If your tar program will let you do it, aim for
256K block sizes.
len
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Yes the number of processors does include the ht processor count. This a dual
3.60GHz Intel Xeon (Hyper- Threaded) machine.
Here is part of the output of the set command:
C:\set
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4
OS=Windows_NT
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=EM64T Family 15 Model 4
Please note that if you have an IBM 3584 library with more then one frame, to
have an inventory of the whole library using this method you would have to open
and close all the doors.
You can also start an phyiscal library scan using the library web interface.
Go to Library then frames. From
Wanda
With ASR is there a work around for a client that does not have a floopy disk
drive?
len
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Wanda
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]
Hello Kelly,
We are not doing encryption with tape drives, but have been asking the
questions.
My understanding is that lto-3's do not do encryption, have you heard something
different.
The encryption of the lto-4's is listed on the web site www.lto.org.
Hello Dinesh,
Check the the server logs and see if you find the answer. I would guess that
there is a timeout message.
len
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Dinesh P
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:30 PM
To:
Xeon and Itanium are different, very different, hardware. I would try the
x86_64.rpm.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan
Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:08 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] What
Matthias,
Those firmware level are very old. You can look at the following IBM URL to
track the latest levels available to the public.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=546context=STCVQ6Zdc=D420uid=ssg1S443loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en
This web page reports a LTO-1 level of 5AU1L1S
Hello Steve,
It would be nice if we had someone from IBM tape group that might shine some
light on the details of the product. As the TSM folks have been known to do for
TSM.
But our local IBM tape person says of the 3584 Yes, if you have 2 robots and
one fails, the other robot takes over
Good Morning Christian,
Can you give the mailing list URL's to the Documents that you wrote on this
topic.
Thanks len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian
Svensson
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:33 AM
To:
Hello John,
Did you check if any of the scratch tapes are marked unav.
Are any of the scratch tapes assigned to pools that you are not using at this
time.
len
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John
Sent: Monday,
Larry,
If you use the ALMS feature of the 3584 library, then you are locked in to the
library doing the cleaning.
An ALMS is a pretty nice feature to be using.
PS Can I ask why you have two single partition libraries instead of one with 2
partitions. Unless they are in different locations.
Angus,
In the past the cdrom had a choice just to install the License information. So
you should not have to uninstall what you have done.
len
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Macdonald
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Angus,
You can use the delete volhist command to move your older db backup tapes to
scratch status.
Look at help del volhist. There are various options to control which tapes
handled.
len
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Angus,
Look at help query volhist
This will show you the db tapes and other special tapes
Query volhist type=dbb
len
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus
Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:36 AM
To:
Hello Zoltan,
I suspect that the TSM folks have not finished testing zfs, there may be
boundary conditions that might have problems.
One feature that you most likely are not using, and I suspect will not work, is
to try backing up files with the new acl's (the same as nfs version 4) and see
Hello Eric,
You will only require scratch tapes in the primary pool or that TSM can move
into the primary pool to do backups. TSM really does not think of working with
tape-sets, it thinks of working with data. If all your primary storage media is
wiped out and you have your copypool data.
Hello Keith,
You can use the TSM server rename filespace command to rename the data for
the existing Windows 2000 server. If you rename them to patterns that will
never exist on the new server the future backups will not change them. But the
data will be available from the new cliet server
Hello Robin,
There is an undocumented command show library that has the online status.
See the archives for more info on undocumented commands.
Here is the partial output from the show library command and the query path
command.
Autolib is an stk 9710 which was not connected. But at least
Hello Paul,
Check out the query volhist command, or look at the volhist file, and see if
the tape is listed as one of the special use tapes. That is it was used as a
database backup tape, or export tape, or
len
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Hello Allen,
We did not use this solution.
Our netapp sales person a little while ago proposed using the bus-tech solution
with a netapp backend store. As Netapp sells this solution. But our MVS (z/os)
folks did not want to look at this solution.
len
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From:
Gill,
What do you find in the dsmerror.log file found on the client machine.
len
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Geoffrey L.
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] failed (return
Hello Kenny,
It worked for us with the search=bulk option. The tapes are placed into the
library, but they are not in the virtual library, but the virtual i/o station
for the virtual library.
len
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The cifs share is mapped/mounted to your userid's session, not to all sessions
on the box.
I am not up onto all the in and outs of all the possible ways to do this. But
you have to map the network share in such a way, that the session which is the
tsm scheduler service sees the share.
I have
Roger
Would this be a good request for a design change to the TSM dev group. That is
an client option to not send any files over a configured size. Then the disk
and tape stg pools, would not require max size settings for this purpose. Of
course there then should be a special client message
Hello Joe,
We have the same problem, just with a larger window. I do not know of a good
solution from tsm, but if you hear of anything we would like to hear of it. We
do not need for the backup to stop, but just to have almost no effect on a wan
link during the day.
Andy I assume that you
Thanks for the input.
I will post more on Friday on our goals, To get feedback on how to word this.
Another post talked about cps, I have not looked at this yet, Do you think that
this might help.
PS another post talked about cancelling sessions, and we have used that method,
the problem
Hello Gary,
Are your filespaces for the clients set for Unicode? On the server use the
query filespace command to check it out. If the filespace is not enabled for
Unicode then you can not store those characters. Note that if they are not and
you change the filespace to be Unicode enabled, it
Hello Geoffrey,
If you purchase a feature call ALMS for the 3584 you get something called VIO,
Virtual i/o station.
With this feature as the operator puts carts into the i/o station the library
moves the carts two at a time into slots in the library. It assigns the tape
carts to the virtual
Hello Allen,
The only role for mvs that tsm can play, at least to my limited knowledge, is
to back up the unix oe file system. And the tsm server does not have to be on
the mainframe.
len
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Aaron,
If you are using library controlled cleaning then you do not need a cleaning
tape assigned to each logical library. As we are using the ALMS option we are
using library cleaning. We also are using netapp ndmp backups and that also
calls for library controlled cleaning.
len
We had a scanner fail a short time in the past. We found out that there are at
least three different design levels for the hardware.
len
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Hello Roger
I have seen it happen. We have collocate turned on for the tape storage pools.
We had several clients that had very little in the way of changing data, with
this usage pattern, we can see a filling tape that is mostly expired holes and
it will reclaim. It does not happen very
Andrew
For more information on the library errors you can look at three (or four
)places if you have the latest library firmware. One less if you do not.
With the latest firmware level the web interface to the library will let you
view the library error log.
It is in the service group. You
Many moons ago, I asked why there was not an option to just export the database
info for a node and allow the storage pool tapes to be used from the new server
after an import. A much speedier method then the practice of exporting all the
data from the database and storage pools. Followed by
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