I'm looking for a second opinion, caveats and any "we've been there (and its good/bad)" about tape sharing . Sharing that's NOT SAN stuff.
In speaking with a level 1 (1.5-2!) TSM/3466 support person about something else, we got around to the topic of 3590's cabled to two systesm and he said I could have all four tape drives (3590-E1A's) online to both 3466 NSMs and they will just go into POLLING mode until a drive becomes available. AIX/TSM can play NICE-NICE with shared drives!!(??!) And all I need to do is put 3494SHared Yes in both server options files. Does this work? Work well? Any hang-ups? Crashes? Gothchas?? As long as I scheduled things so that there's little or no drive contention does it work? thanks ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley Private mail on any topic should be directed to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] COUNTDOWN: 148 days to my *first* retirement!!! (510)642-7638 (w) (209)483-JOEF (M) 5633