OK, You have to put the CA-1 exit in to ignore the open systems tapes first.
You define the ATL in TSM and that is where you set the category codes for TSM. Lets say you choose 300 for privates, 301 for 3490 scratchs, then automatically 3590 gets 302. You have to enable the 3590 function in the TSM server options. When you insert the tapes into the library the OS390 system will not register them with the exit in place. They will remain FF00. Use the TSM LABEL command to checkin and label the tapes at the same time. Do not use CHECKIN for unlabeled tapes. If you have inserted the tapes in the library and need to get them out. Use the MTLIB command to change its category to the IO station category and the tapes will eject (cannot remember that but it is something like FFFD). You have apparently configured the LAN address in the Library Manager for the AIX host. Send me a response if you have anymore questions. My presentation on WWW.SHARE.ORG may help. See Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adventures sharing/connecting 3494 ATL to TSM AIX system We are having an adventure trying to configure a 3494 ATL and 3590-FC drives to be used by TSM on an AIX server. Never having done this kind of configuration before, we are having lots of issues and questions. Existing configuration is a 3494 ATL with 6-3490 and 8-3590 ESCON attached drives, up until now only used by our OS/390 system. We have installed 3-3590E1A drives with FC connections to an existing SAN. This part seems to be working since the SAN configuration tools see the drives, just fine. At first they wouldn't work since IBM left the devices with no addresses/offline. Fixed that. However we still have a call into IBM to see what else they might have left configured incorrectly. IBM finally got the ethernet connection/card working so we can PING and talk to the Library Manager. LM has been configured with the IP (private) address and name of the TSM AIX box/server (running latest, V5.1). Ran through all the processes to configure the LM and 3590 drives (/dev/lmcp0 and /dev/rmt1-3). MTLIB -qS says there are 17 devices (OS390 connected 14 + 3-FC). Yet we can't access the tape drives since we can't seem to configure the 3590 drives as being part of the ATL (any suggestions would be helpful !!). Also, we seem to have some issues with the CATEGORY ? This too is unfamiliar to us since we have never had to deal with this. Earlier attempts at getting the TSM AIX server to mount/initialize a tape we inserted into the ATL issued: ANR8846E Volume 070000 is assigned to a category that does not belong to library 3494ATL. So, some of my questions: 1. How does one control the CATEGORY assigned to tapes we stick into the ATL. As for the OS390 side, CA-1 won't let those tapes be used by it since it is outside of the controlled ranged. Also, since OS390 does recognize the tape as being inserted, I planned to just manually update the SMS info for these tapes to mark them as all being PRIVATE. Anything wrong with this idea ? I took the default Private (300) and Scratch (301) categories when defining the ATL. 2. Do I need to LABEL all of the tapes I insert for these drives to use ? 3. Do I still have to go through the CHECKIN process eventhough it is in an ATL ? 4. Is there something on the Library Manager that needs to be configured to control access to the 3590-FC tapes (these are the only "K" type drives we have and thus should be the only devices that use the "K" tapes). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
