Re: J's and K's in 3494

2004-11-09 Thread David E Ehresman
To assign Js to a set of storagepools and Ks to a different set of storagepools, in a non-z/OS environment, you have to either define all of your Js as private and define them to the appropriate storage pools and use the Ks as scratch. Or do it the other way around and use the Js as scratch and do

Re: J's and K's in 3494

2004-11-09 Thread Muthyam Reddy
** High Priority ** Hi Steve, Thanks for ur response, I have no idea how much it costs for upgrade drives...but client decided to expand existing tape library. You mean explicitly assign tapes to particular storage pool ? Thank you. muthyam >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/8/2004 6:14:40 PM >>> Muthy

Re: J's and K's in 3494

2004-11-08 Thread Steve Harris
Muthyam, Why add slots when you can upgrade your B1As to E1As and double your capacity or H1As and triple it? Second hand 3590 equipment is very cheap now that the 3592 has come out. Anyway. The way I used to do it was to explicitly assign tapes to management classes for onsite use and let th

J's and K's in 3494

2004-11-08 Thread Muthyam Reddy
** High Priority ** Greetings ALL, Soon we are going to expand our tape library(3494) with more slots after we run out of space with existing J' cartridges. We have got some(600) new K' cartridges of high capacity to use along with J'cartridges. I have been asked to use K'cartridges for offsite(I