RE: Optical Cartridge Management

Terry,

I have researched this several times over the last few years and have NOT
found
a package to fully automate this process.  I found with a TMS you must enter
the volumes manually into 
the packages database.  I am assuming your 3995 is direct attached to a 6534
or 6521 iop.  We put bar 
codes on the stem of the platter to match the volume ID of the Optical
platter and scan them and
use a PC package for tracking of copies of platters that are off-site.  

To see when platters are full you can enter the following command and write
a pgm or query over the outfile
and select the volume size and space available fields and do a calculation. 
DSPOPT VOL(*ALL) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(BMLIB/OPTXX).   If you check the
various available
variables on the command you can solve many Optical issues.   We have a set
of custom programs 
for this type of management and problem determination that is just queries
and small CL and RPGs,
this can be written by any programmer quickly to fit your current
environment.  

 

Bob Marion
perotsystems
Sr. Specialist
Phone:  972/461-3186
Fax:  972/461-3010
EMail:  bob.marion@ps.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Grider [mailto:tgrider@arkansas.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 8:54 AM
To: MIDRANGE L
Subject: Optical Cartridge Management


Does anyone out there have or have heard of software to manage Optical
Cartridges created on a 3995 attached to an AS400?  We have RealVision
Report
Management and create quite a large number of these cartridges and it's
getting
to be a pain tracking them manually.  There is also quite a lot of manual
effort
constantly checking to see which cartridges are almost full so they can be
moved
out of the 3995 and replaced with fresh ones.  It seems like a Tape
Management
System would be close to what would be needed except the cartridges would
never
return to the scratch pool.

-- 
Terry Grider
tgrider@arkansas.net
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