We are getting ready to upgrade our 3494 ATL with 3592-E05 drives (and other stuff like library manager, etc) and I am looking for information from someone who has such a configuration.
Currently, we share the library between our z/OS MF (3590B/J - ESCON) and 2-AIX and 2-Linux TSM servers (3590E/K - SAN). I am concerned about the mix of K and whatever type tapes the 3592 drives will use, since each TSM server will be using both types of media (can we say 80GB DB backup on a 1TB tape......NO !) How do you control which processes use which drives within the same library ? I know the device class has options for 3592 types, but you have to define it within the same library ? Will this work ? Does the new library manager hardware/software give us the capability to connect with multiple links from the same TSM server, as separate "libraries" so library definitions can separate the category codes and we can define two libraries to each TSM server ?
