TSM Community,
Upcoming Flash (number will be sent later under separate email) Who is Affected: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) 5.2 for Solaris and HP-UX customers using IBM 3584, 3583, 3582, or 3581 tape libraries with Ultrium LTO tape drives. Problem: Eight character volume names are being returned for the barcode label from the tape library. Previous ITSM releases labeled these volumes with six character volume names from the barcode label. This problem causes the barcode labels to not match the labels written to the tape volume for customers upgrading to ITSM 5.2 if the volume was labeled at a previous level and checked in with ITSM 5.2. When this condition is encountered on a scratch volume the status is changed to private and the operation tries to select another scratch volume. Recommendation: First upgrade to the following device driver levels or higher for the tape library. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11.0_PCI/atdd.1.9.0.9.bin ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11.0_PCI/atdd.fixlist ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11i_PCI/atdd.3.1.0.9.bin ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11i_PCI/atdd.fixlist ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Solaris/IBMtape.4.0.7.7.bin ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Solaris/IBMtape.fixlist If upgrading is not possible at this time do not use barcodes for the LABEL LIBVOL, CHECKIN LIBVOL, or AUDIT LIBRARY commands in order to prevent problems with six character volumes and to prevent the creation of more eight character volume names. Instead, explicitly specify a 6 character label name. For example, on the LABEL LIBVOL command, specify the 6 character label on the media as the volume name rather than use the barcode option. After upgrading no further action is required if all volumes from the output of QUERY LIBVOL, QUERY VOLUME, and QUERY VOLHISTORY have six character volume names. Volumes with eight character volumes names can still be used, but the CHECKIN LIBVOL and AUDIT LIBRARY commands with barcodes cannot be used on theses volumes. To re-label the volumes to six character volume names wait for the volume to return to scratch or move the data off the volume using the MOVE DATA command, checkout the volume from ITSM using the CHECKOUT LIBVOL command, and label the volume using the LABEL LIBVOL command. Cordially, Sam J. Giallanza Tivoli Certified Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] 520.799.5512