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We have a TS3100 tape magazine (TAPMLB02) and use BRMS for our backup systme.

There appear to be some incompatibilities.

1. We move tapes once/week so there are seven tapes to move each time. When doing a tape movement from location TAPMLB02 to location Vault BRMS causes the TS3100 to move each tape to the I/O station in TAPMLB02 expecting some human to remove that tape before it tries to move the next tape to the I/O station. Of course no one is standing around removing tapes from the tape magazine so the tape movement job fails with a "can't put a tape in a slot that is full" error message. What we need is the ability to move tapes without having BRMS trying to eject them from TAPMLB02. Our workaround is to remove the tapes prior to running tape movement in which case BRMS moves the tapes and doesn't complain about the fact that they are not in TAPMLB02.

2. We have had situations where a perfectly eligible tape (TAPMLB02, expired, available, correct class, etc.) can't be found by BRMS. IBM is trying to figure out why. The workaround is to vary off/on TAPMLB02 which causes a re-inventory of the tape magazine.

Anyone else?

Jerry


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