On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:18:54 +0100, Perryman, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi folks > >Hopefully Mike Wood will jump in here.. > >Is it possible to get RMM to specify what volume is used when a scratch tape is requested? We have a virtual tape device (BusTech's 'Mainframe Appliance for Storage'). It pretends to be a bank of sixteen 3490 tape drives. When a tape mount for a scratch volume is requested, this device intercepts the 'PRIVAT' message and picks a volume which it thinks is a scratch volume, and mounts it. > >This gives me a problem in that I have to keep the MAS scratch list in step with what RMM thinks are scratch (or more importantly, NOT scratch). There is a BusTech utility batch program to do this, running off an RMM scratch report. For >each tape in the RMM scratch list, it tells the MAS to scratch the volume. This is working ok most of the time. > >However there is a slight window of risk. If between the time the report was generated and the time the scratch requests go in, a scratch tape is used to satisfy a mount request, it can get scratched inside the MAS even though the tape is now in use. RMM of course won't know about this. > Brian, I found this thread in the archives, we are looking at the BusTech MAS device at the moment. You know the device by now, I saw in a later thread that you were satisfied by the box. Are you still? I am interested in the potential window of risk you mentioned. Did you expirience any problems with this and if so, how did you deal with them? Thanks, Kees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
