I used to manage a TSM site that shared their 3494 between the mainframe (OS/390) ESCON attached and TSM running on AIX Ethernet and SCSI attached. Worked just fine. ONly thing is you need to coordinate with the mainframe folk so that TSM and the mainframe don't get confused and start using each others' tapes! A different label system for the tapes comes in handy. Our TSM tapes were label'd starting with 'R' and the mainframe was configured to ignore insertions of "R" tapes. The CHECKIN for TSM used the VOLRANGE=R00000-R99999 parameter.
Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone using 3494 and Windows 2000 Server? We have a Win2K TSM server with a point-to-point Ethernet connection to a 3494 library with 3- 3590 fibre drives. I think that is exactly the same setup as using 3590 SCSI drives, except of course for the type of cable. Now that 3494 is also attached to a mainframe and has 2 ESCON controllers and 5 additional 3590 ESCON drives installed that are dedicated to the mainframe, but all that is pretty much independent of the Windows connection to the 3494. We have a second 3494 in a different location that also is attached to a Win2K TSM server, 2 fibre drives, point-to-point Ethernet, shared with another mainframe, more ESCON 3590 drives, etc. Identical to the first setup except for the number of drives. So, I've done it twice, had no problems at all with the setup. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone using 3494 and Windows 2000 Server? Is anyone running TSM server on a Windows 2000 server connected directly to a 3494 with (2)3590 drives (SCSI)? IBM says it's supported but we spoke with some IBM tech reps and they said they have never seen it implemented. Just curious Mark Cini Systems Administrator CorrFlex Display & Packaging
