Administrator's Guide


Enabling Support for IBM 3590 Drives in Existing 3494 Libraries

The new category that ADSM creates for 3590 scratch volumes can duplicate a category already assigned to another application and cause loss of data. If you are currently sharing a 3494 library between ADSM and other applications or systems and you enable ADSM's support for 3590 drives, you need to be careful. ADSM automatically creates a third category for 3590 scratch volumes by adding one to the existing scratch category for any 3494 libraries defined to ADSM. (See "Categories in 349X Automated Libraries" for more information about the categories.)

To ensure that all steps are followed to prevent potential data loss, enable 3590 support by adding the following line to the server options file (dsmserv.opt):

ENABLE3590LIBRARY  YES

Stop and start the server to make this change effective.

To prevent loss of data, do either one of the following before enabling 3590 support:

For more information about checking in volumes, see "Informing the Server about New Volumes in a Library".


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