Re: Trying to add a 3494

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Thorson
Here's a post from the archives on how to intialize the Library Manager for LAN communications: http://adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/1996-06/msg00254.html Have you done that? - Original Message - From: Sam Sheppard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:58 Subject: [ADSM-L

Re: Trying to add a 3494

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Thorson
Depending on the age of your library, you may need to run the configuration utility to set up LAN communications on the OS/2 machine which is the library manager. Most 3494's used by mainframes communicate via the controllers, not over the LAN. This is a one time set up, and if I recall correc

Re: Question on TSM environment sizes

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Thorson
Wow! Quite a setup. I've worked on a couple of engagements with 24 x 3592 tape drives, but 72 drives, 1900 paths, and 200 stg agents must be interesting, to say the least. Off the top of my head: Advantages: 1 scratch pool, "lazy man's load balancing", with all TSM clients accessing all dri

Re: non tech question about tsm

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Thorson
Throw a dart at the list of Fortune 500, and you'll have better than a 50-50 chance that they use TSM, especially the financials for D/R. Accounts I know about are: Walmart, AT&T, State Farm, American Express, Mellon Bank and of course, IBM. - Original Message - From: goc <[EMAIL PRO