On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 18:54:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I work for a federal agency that ran like hell from Katrina and her ugly >sister Rita; we are currently processing out of a Sungard site where we built >an entire MVS computer center in 5 weeks. > >We have 9840 tapes that were created on STK 9840 A/B tape architecture (Gen'ed >as IBM 3590's tape devices) and we are unable to read the data off some of >these tapes utilizing STK 9840C tape drives. > >My question is this? >Has anyone experienced any problems reading backup tape data (using FDRABR) >that was created on STK 9840A/B tape architecture then try to read the data >from STK 9840C tape architecture?? > > >The problems we are experiencing are many but I do not understand why <snip> We routinely do this at DR drills without any problems. Using the 9840Cs gives us extra drives since the A/Bs are limited. As a matter of fact I just got back from a drill this morning where we did this. This was for native drives. At our data center this had to work because we converted our back end VSM drives (RTDs) from 9840B to 9840C earlier this year. There are still a lot of MVCs that are in 9840B format that are read on the 9840C drives thoughout the day every day. If you are working with the vendor then this shouldn't be news to you. I don't know why you are having problems, but it's not because you're doing something that isn't supported. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
