Why “free” is not a good deal
You've likely heard the expression "you get what you pay for" and this holds true for tape support in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). While TSM comes with built-in support for tape at no additional cost you aren't getting a whole lot of functionality either. Here's how it shakes out... What you get out of the box TSM provides the following basic support for all tape libraries out of the box: Tape library sharing (media and drives) Support for a single device path to each
