We are investigating the issue of moving TSM off AIX to a Linux system, purely due to the cost of AIX hardware (lets face it....when it costs me $5000 for a drawer of used SSA drives just to get me 130GB of raided disk when I can get complete multi-processor x86 boxes with 300GB of raided disk for the same cost, you have to investigate !)
The only issue is the fiber-channel/SAN connectivity to the shared 3494 ATL (primarily used by our z/OS systems) using 3590 E1A drives. Can this be accomplished with an x86 box ? How many folks are using the fairly new Linux version of TSM ? How is it running ? Issues ?
