The IBM® TotalStorage® Enterprise Tape Library 3494 can be shared by iSeries™ servers, pSeries® servers and ES/9000® systems for a total of 16 systems. The iSeries servers can share cartridges in the library.
The other systems can share the library by partitioning the 3494 tape library, and individual cartridges can be assigned to a particular processor. This is done by assigning each cartridge to a category.