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Five years ago, I set up our 550 with eight partitions and an HMC running on version 4.4.0. It took me about 150 GUI operations (click, drag, click, click ad fatuus) to set up a schedule to move the tape drive from partition to partition for the daily and weekly backups. Whenever the HMC was booted, the schedule went away and I had to do another 150 manual, mistake free GUI operations.
I implemented the set up to allow the iSeries to send commands to the HMC using the technique Glenn mentioned at
http://tinyurl.com/ygpn4uo. It sounds like IBM fixed this problem since then but I never tested it because I don't use the HMC scheduler for resource moves anymore. The problem with using the HMC scheduler for resource moves is it has to do the moves blindly. If the iSeries is in control, it can make sure the device affected is varied off/on properly.
Regards,
Philip Seay
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Move a tape drive resource between LPAR's ?
Hearsay from awhile back. Although someone else alluded to this.
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
