-----Mark Stapleton wrote: ----- >Has anyone out there done this sort of migration by restoring the TSM >database from the old server to the new server? > >I've never worked with zLinux before, but my understanding is that >zLinux partitions use the same type of filespaces (EXT2, EXT3, >ReiserFS, etc.) that stand-alone Linux does. That being true, the >database restore should be a snap.
Other people who have tried cross-platform database restores have gotten error messages implying that the header fields of TSM database backups contain integers written in the native format of the system that created the backup. IBM mainframes use the big-endian integer format, with the most significant bits of the integer in the byte with the lowest address. Intel systems use the little-endian format, with the most significant bit in the byte with the highest address. An attempt to restore a mainframe database backup to an Intel system would fail as soon as the Intel system read a big-endian integer and tried to interpret it as a little-endian integer.
