________________________________ ... On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe products. TSM on z/OS has no knowledge about the tape library on z/OS other than the number of drives and the device types. SMS rules decides on the tape media is correct and the system assign the tape drives. What new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX. z/OS version of TSM has no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other unique Unix thing.
==> Well, you've pretty much covered it. On non_Mainframe TSM, you have to define the library, drives, and paths, and check in tapes. After that, TSM pretty much handles all the tape activity automatically.Exactly how it works will depend on what type of library you have - what is it? And are you sharing it with any other application, or is it dedicated to TSM? I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages. How would I set up something similar in AIX? ==>"it depends". There are about 47 different ways to do it, depending on your environment. - TSM supports SNMP traps, that is, TSM on AIX will send messages as SNMP traps to any SNMP receiver you designate. If you are using Mainframe Netview to generate your highligthted console messages, I believe there is a NetView thingy that will let it receive traps from a non-mainframe source, but I've never done it (or seen it done). -You can also write your own exit and have TSM messages forwarded anywhere you want. -There is a TSM function called the Operational Reporter that is the simplest way to set up daily TSM monitoring. Read about it under the "monitoring your server" section in the Administrator's Guide. Even though y ou have an AIX server, you set up OR on a Windows box. Can be any Windows server in your environment, or your desktop, for that matter. It is a harmless Windows ap with no hooks into TSM. It scans the TSM log every day, can generate a report of errors & missed backups via Email or as an HTML report plopped on any place that is convenient for you to browse to. That is the simplest way I've found to do your daily server monitoring, and it's free.. -Some peopl also write perl and/or .ksh scripts to sent them mail about TSM events. -There are 3rd party products you can buy to do your TSM monitoring, at various levels from free (TSM OR, above) to expensive, and everywhere in between. If there is a particular function you are looking for, I might be able to give you a more specific answer.
