David,
As for the vaulting, take a look at AutoVault from www.coderelief.com.
For the checkin, we wrote a small PERL script that issues the checkin
command (we actually have it defined as a server script and the PERL just
does a RUN CHECKIN), then waits a couple seconds and issues a QUERY REQUEST,
parses out the reply number and issues the REPLY <xxx>. You could probably
do the same thing with a shell script. Makes it automated. We even schedule
it. The client schedule runs the PERL script (action=command) which turns
around and does the checkin. We have this running in several sites with
different SCSI type libraries. Plus PERL is free!
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
David E Ehresman
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Benefits of moving to platform other than OS/390
I've not done the move yet but expect to in the next 6 months. The con
I expect has to do with media movement to and from our offsite vault.
On OS390 we have a vault management system that tells the ops what tapes
to send offsite, tells the courier which slots to put them in, which
slots to pull and bring back. On AIX, we don't have such a system.
I'm also implementing a small TSM system on a small AIX network with a
LTO tape library. What I notice there so far is that the 3584 takes
more operator intervention then does the 3494. TSM on AIX requires me
to reply to messages to tell the 3584 to look for carts in the i/o
station; the 3494 with TSM on OS390 just detects that it has carts in
the i/o station and files them.
David Ehresman
University of Louisville
