Communication with TSLM

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The IBM® Tape System Library Manager (TSLM) provides a resource management layer between applications such as Tivoli® Storage Manager and the tape library hardware.

Essentially, TSLM decouples tape resources from applications. Decoupling simplifies both the aggregation and the sharing of tape resources.

TSLM provides the following benefits:
  • Consolidated, mainframe-class media management services
  • Centralized repository, access control, and administration
  • Management beyond physical library boundaries
    • Access multiple TS4500 tape libraries as a single library image.
    • The libraries can be separate (at SAN distances)
  • Dynamic sharing of resources across heterogeneous application boundaries
  • Security features to allow or prevent application access to tapes
    • Helps to enable common scratch pool and private pools for every application
    • Secures the usage and visibility
  • Policy-based drive and cartridge allocation
  • Policy-based media-lifecycle management
  • 3494 Emulation
    • Emulation of an IBM 3494 library on top of an attached TS4500 tape library.

For more information about TSLM, see the IBM Tape System Library Manager User’s Guide (GA32-2208).