A couple of comments based upon what I have heard at Share. The reason for the discontinuation of 34XX tapes is because they are no longer being manufactured. IBM has a stock of them, but when they are gone, there is no more.
Somebody mentioned using the HMC to load from a DVD. According to one of the IBM speakers, this is not supported for z/OS tapes. Alledgedly, there have been improvements on the download function. Haven't tried it, but that was the claim. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
