Depends on the device. Our ATL is connected via SCSI to a Wintel server as well as via Ficon to our z. The individual drives within the ATL are actually SCSI (3590) and a drive is either assigned to the Wintel controller or the Ficon attached controller. But they are the same drives. Switching does require a CE.
Now, even if you can physically read the data on the tapes, can you process it? That's a different question entirely. If it is sequential data written by a COBOL program, and you have the COBOL copybook describing it, then maybe. But much of our data is written using vendor utilities such as IDCAMS EXPORT or CA-ISM FAVER. Reading that would be a trip. Or a DFDSS backup dump. Or HSM. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems > > Luckily this required info is not for our shop, another MF > is biting the dust here in the north east. The powers that be > are concerned about accessing data that resides in a VTS/ATL > device once the plug is pulled on the MF, should there be a > need to. Is there any software/hardware product that provides > the capability to access data in that device from a > distributed platform, most likely HP or Linux. That's all the > info I have for now. > > Anybody been there, done that? > > Thanks Matt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
