McKown, John wrote:
We use Sungard as our D.R. provider. We are getting a new tape
subsystem. It is a 3494-B10 (VTS), a 3584 Tape Library with 3592-J1A
tape drives, and two 3490-C22 rack mounted drives (for interchange).
This is totally replacing our 3494-B18, 3590E manual drives, 3480
drives, and 3420 drives (man, will we have on maintenance charges!).
Anyway, from what I've been told by our D.R. coordinator, we will have a
3494-B18 VTS at Sungard along with 3952 drives in a tape library (ATL).
I have never done this before. The question that I have is how we will
access our 3952 cartridges on the Sungard floor system to restore our
z/OS volumes? Do we put all the tapes in the "convenience port" with
Sungard's system up? Will this cause a problem when we IPL our system,
because our system will still think that the volumes are EJECTed?
I don't understand, what are you afraid, however for properly configured
environment it possible/feasible/normal to put ejected tapes into CIOS
(Convenience I/O Station). Drive model has nothing to do with that, the
same operation can be done for 3590 tapes.
BTW: Will you get 3494 for your exclusive use, or it will be shared in
any way ?
The first, tenative, plan is to basically do what we do now. We will
restore our z/OS system using Sungard's floor system. We then IPL our
system and start restoring more data. We plan to use a product called
VDR from OpenTech as well. We plan to use it to copy and recatalog data
on the 3592 carts onto virtual carts in the 3494-B10.
Do they provide any stand-alone MVS ?
If yes, then create physical dumps of your system volumes (1 cart, low
utilised) and restore it on Sungard machine. The rest or restore should
be performed from your just-IPLed system.
The most important is to have valid data on the tapes.
HTH
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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