... >My problem is that 3494LOCAL has 62 scratch tapes available and >3494REMOTE has 207 scratch tapes in it. ...
Hmmm... That's about 3:1, something of a "magic ratio" in tape drive settings. Might it be the case that one tape devclass has compression defined and the other not? This would account for TSM's basic statistics being about equal for both, but the volumes count being so discrepant. Richard Sims