So this SMSHONOR thing has really caught my attention. I've been looking through documentation this morning as if I can get this to work in our configuration, it will serve a need in our environment.
We're getting ready to move all our virtual tape from a Composite Library with 2 Virtual Libraries (peer-to-peer). The drives are 'owned' by the composite. With a most of our tapes older than a year, they're on back-end tape & will, of course, need to be loaded back into the buffer before we copy them. We'll be using OpenTec's TapeCopy product to move the tapes from the old libraries to the new. I can read the BVIR reports & know which virtual tapes are stacked on which back-end tape in each library. If I can force a copy job to use a tape drive in a specific library, then I could set the TapeCopy job up to read the tapes in order from the back-end tape owned by that library making the process of recalling tapes into the buffer more efficient. But because of the way the drives are defined in the peer-to-peer relationship to the composite library, I wondering if I can get this to work. We're in the process of upgrading from zOS1.9 to 1.11 & I haven't had a chance to run anything yet on the 1.11 system. So has anyone worked with this 'flavor' before? Offline response would be OK by me. dd keller This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
