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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family
sharing tape drives between two logical libraries in the physical library is supported In TS3500. If I try to exploit that feature in TSM, using a single TSM server, it doesn't work. TSM does not seem to understand that a tape Device which has a DISTINCT NAME is the same device in two different libraries. TSM will try to use that tape drive in the other library and get I/O errors.
I would Like TSM to realize that a tape drive name is distinct across the TSM server implementation, and not try use that device when it is busy. I believe that would allow the tape drive sharing to work properly.
sharing tape drives between two logical libraries in the physical library is supported In TS3500. If I try to exploit that feature in TSM, using a single TSM server, it doesn't work. TSM does not seem to understand that a tape Device which has a DISTINCT NAME is the same device in two different libraries. TSM will try to use that tape drive in the other library and get I/O errors.
I would Like TSM to realize that a tape drive name is distinct across the TSM server implementation, and not try use that device when it is busy. I believe that would allow the tape drive sharing to work properly.