RE: onbar + autochanger + ISM

Answer is yes, ISM is Legato, personally I would just purchase a good fully supported storage manager like Legato. You will have enough support issues with the storage manager without doing unsupported changes. But that's me ..... Wayne E Martin Informix Database Administrator Kmart Corporation -----Original Message----- From: lopez@abqato.abq.sc.philips.com [mailto:lopez@abqato.abq.sc.philips.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:42 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: onbar + autochanger + ISM I see from the news archives several persons have asked how to use an auto-changer with Informix Storage Manager and ontape or onbar. But I do not see useful answers. The auto changer is HP Surestore E Autoloader 818 which has 8 DLT tape capacity. ISM manual clearly states it has no functionality to support any kind of auto changer. Steven wrote to David: I have successfully used Informix's ISM package with a tape drive that had autochanger. I modified the scripts and configuration slightly to call a shell script which was responsible for changing tapes whenever the tape filled. Since ISM is a layer around a brain damaged Legato, I used some of Legato's documentation to determine how to get my script to runwhen the tape filled. Does this mean that ISM is actually by Legato and the Legato scripts were modified? I understand Legato does support auto-changers. Any hints as to how to use command line statements to facilitate the changing of tapes when using onbar might be useful to me. -- Robert.Lopez@Philips.com Assembly and Test Organization, Philips Semiconductors Mail Stop 20, 9201 Pan American Fwy. N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113 USA [P: (505)822-7112 F: x7237]