At 12:27 -0500 11/26/02, Klein, Robert (NIH/CIT) wrote:
We are in the process of moving TSM (v4.2 for OS/390) from a machine that uses Control-T as its tape management system to a machine that uses CA-1 (TMS) as its tape management system. I am told by the system person in charge of our tape management systems that it will be necessary to copy the data from the tapes managed by ct-t to tapes managed by CA-1 in order for users to be able to recover their data once we move TSM.
I've got a lot of experience with OS/390 and CA-1, but very little with TSM and one with the combination (our management didn't have the sense to put TSM on a system that we already had running reliably, because everybody knows mainframes are going away). So I'm not 100% sure how TSM fits into the mix, but CA-1 has plenty of utilities for importing tape information from other sources, either manually entered or exported from other tape management systems. You just need to let CA-1 manage the tapes by copying the relevant information from the Control-T database to the CA-1 database. The CA-1 doc should give plenty of guidance. It could get complicated if the volume ids on your old system conflict with volume ids already in use on the system you're moving to. But if there's no overlap, you should just be able to define your existing TSM tapes in the CA-1 database. --
Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as last year's.
