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Jim,

Is the tape drive set up for Random mode and do you have External
barcode labels on the tapes?

Pete

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:55 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: BRMS tape movement with single i/o slot library

We have been using the magazines in this to load tapes. It is a nice
feature.
My problem is STRMNTBRM wants to move any tape to be moved out of the drive
thru the i/o slot. When only the prev night to move - ok. But after a
weekend
have Sat am, Sun am, Mon am tapes to move... and only single i/o slot.
BRMS moves first then halts (hard cpf error to qsysopr with (C R) options.

trying to avoid halt because retry take "forever" and would have to do
twice.
Jim
---- rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Is this what you have?

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3100/index.html?&ca=qapromo&me=
W&met=qapromo-s0stg-b0stg-l0ts-d0stgts-n0018-o0ts3100-g0usen

We have three of them. We are not using BRMS. I recently found out that
there are two removable magazines in this beast. One on the left and one
on the right. I can't believe it took me this long to figure it out. If
you do Control, Magazine, Left (or Right) you can pull the whole magazine.

Might have to stick your fingers into what looks like air scoops and pull

slightly.

When we were using TSM on a 3570 we were ejecting one tape at a time out
the little I/O door even though we could pull the whole magazine. We just

didn't know what we were doing. Now that we have a different tape drive
and more knowledge we tell TSM to eject them to the magazine and pull out
a whole series at a time instead of through any I/O slot.
TSM tape drive:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3310/index.html

In summary, if you can't figure it out by magazine, try calling IBM and
see if they can help you. If they try to push you to InsultLine, (oops
ConsultLine), then contact a BP. Sirius has been a big help to us.

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Date:
02/25/2009 10:21 AM
Subject:
BRMS tape movement with single i/o slot library
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Cust has TS3100 Tape Library (runs great) holds 24 tapes and has a single
i/o slot.
We have managed to keep BRMS in sync with lib by operator pulling prev
night save from i/o slot and adding into magazine an expired tape each
day.
Cost cutback, no more weekend operations, but nightly save must continue.
I can set backup policy to *rewind tape instead of *unload (which moves it

to i/o slot)
STRMNTBRM MOVMED(*YES) running now only 5 days a week should work, except
on Monday morning there will be 3 tapes to move, only single i/o slot
causing a halt.
This will be our 1st weekend on this schedule.
How to avoid the halt?
Jim Franz
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