Be careful using a third party product (TapeCopy or CA-1/CopyCat) to copy HSM cartridges to other cartridges or media. The HSM CDS keeps track of which datasets are on which volumes, so if you copy the contents (files) from one cartridge (virtual or physical) to another cartridge outside of HSM's copy function the CDS won't be updated and HSM won't call for those files from the copied cartridges.
The best way (IMHO) to utilize these new high capacity cartridges is the backend of a virtual-tape solution (IBM, STK, CA). All of these virtual-tape solutions (now) have the ability to create at least 2 physical copies of a virtual-volume on physical cartridges (some even go to 4 physical copies) which helps with the very valid "all the eggs in one basket" concern. Here however the problem of getting one of these physical cartridges out of a robotic environment gets more complicated. It's easy to get a cartridge out of 3494/ATL, much harder to get a copy of a virtual-volume out of a 3494/VTS. STK its very easy (both physical and virtual-volume), and CA's Vtape is robot independant so it can be as easy or hard as you like. Of course there is also the 3494/VTS Duplex environment, where you have a 3494/VTS both onsite and offsite and they mirror each other (no need to move cartridges at all). Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DFSMShsm & 3592 carts & money Nice subject? Anyway does anybody else out there have 3592 drives? Are you using them for DFSMShsm ML2 data? At present, we are debating putting HSM ML2 data on 3592 carts. The other option is to use 3490E __virtual__ carts and use OpenTECH's TapeCopy to stack the virtual carts onto physical 3592 carts. The main "worry" about this, in both cases, is that we won't get out money's worth due to having too little data on the individual 3592 carts. The number I heard is $200/cart, so we don't want to "waste" them. Any help? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
