Re: TS3310 and BRMS - will this work?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes you can make that process work. Your control groups have to specify 
to append to the tape, but I think you have that (end of media option) 
Use option 8 on the control group to check it. The ejection of the tape 
will happen if the device is varied off for some reason.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On 5/1/13 1:05 PM, Lindstrom, Scott R. wrote:
> I have inherited a V4R4 system with BRMS and an IBM TS3310 tape library.  I have been reading BRMS doc and entries on midrange-l and thought I'd confirm that I can make the following plan work in BRMS:
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> *         At the beginning of the first backup mount any expired tape
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> *         Each BRMS control group would then write to this tape and end with ENDOPT(*LEAVE)
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> *         At 8 am the next morning the tape single tape that was used (still in the drive) would be ejected to the I/O port (where it would then send off site)
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> *         Repeat the process for each day.
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> The archive entries (some of the are old) seem to indicate there could be a problem with the TS3310 ejecting a tape, so I was curious if anyone has recent experience with this tape library and BRMS.
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> Scott Lindstrom
> Reynolds Leveraged Services |  HP-UX, Linux, and AS/400 Administrator
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