The "general" thing about HSM is that there are so many things for
which you cannot run a batch job to do some HSM function and get a
non-zero return code if the function fails.
Really, things like DELVOL which only reply thru TPUT there is no
way to automate a function like MARKFULL with a batch job, not even
Netview or CA's automation products. If you wish to mark all your ML2
tapes FULL so that you can do TAPECOPY, there must be operator
intervention at some point to confirm that each step happened correctly.
This is insane. It makes "lights out" operation impossible. It brings
human error back into the equation.
If you or, or anyone, knows a way around this, I would appreciate
hearing about it. If you can put a bug in the right IBM ear about this,
I would really appreciate it.
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