Re: BRMS sharing 1 tape between 2 systems

I'm working on a site running V7R1 TR6 that uses BRMS to manage their
backups. BRMS networking is set up and active and media can be seen between
systems,

They have a scenario where they want to backup 2 guest partitions to a
single tape. They only have standalone tape drives available, no tape
library.

- The drive is available on the second system
- The media class is set to SHARE YES.
- The backup control group specifies APPEND *YES

Backups fails with message BRM1518 Volume xxx cannot be used on this
system.

Second level text provides additional information that "media management
indicates that the volume is not to be shared between systems" and provides
details of the back on the first partition.

Is it actually possible to do what the customer wants to do ?

Is the "sharing" that BRMS does between systems limited to sharing common
media and tracking, but backups to be appended to a tape must be appended
to a tape already used by the same system ?

I can understand why this might be so, but would like to confirm one way or
another. Any references to manuals or documentation would be appreciated.

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Regards
Evan Harris
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