Our year end 'sweet deal' from IBM was a tape 'robot'. The IBM 3494
system. We don't do near enough tape processing to justify the VTS. Two
robots, actually, one for our production site and one for the BR site.
This system is to replace our two antique 3490 ACL units and two aged
3590 ACL units. Wanna buy some tape drives, cheap? ;-)
We are using DFSrmm as our tape control software. All tapes are
strictly for backup. No input tape allowed. And we don't plan to change
that. The next phase is to leverage the two robots to do each others
offsite backups.
We are being told that the library system is 100% SMS controlled. We
have had robots in the past, but had never heard this as a requirement.
It this your experience?
We intend to rework all of what little tape processing we have to
exploit the new units. Does anyone have some thoughts for a migration
plan?
Did you have to invent some processing, such as off site tape ejects?
Any other things we should be aware of?
Thanks, the very best of the new year to all.
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