Oh No. John said FlexES!!!!. Please lets not get started on lawsuits again!!! hahahahahahahahaha...
"McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 12/29/2006 01:54 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Remote Tape drives > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crispin Hugo > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 12:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Remote Tape drives > > > Cheers John, > I thought channel extenders had a finite distance , like > about 250k. I think > we are looking for something which would be IP based > > > Crispin Hugo > Systems Programmer, Macro 4 Hum, I think that you are correct. But that is all that I have heard of. The problem, as best as I can see it, is the slowness of the response from the tape due to the extreme slowness of the speed of light. <gring> Now, I know of a possible way to do it, but it would be VERY indirect and not "real time". Funsoft (http://www.funsoft.com), the makers of FlexES, have a system called the FLEXCUB. This is based on FlexES, sort of. What it does is make an Escon connected control unit. On the "back end" it can use the device emulation software from FlexES to control SCSI tape drives, emulated tape drives (AWS or FakeTape(tm) formatted volumes which "look like" tapes to the z/OS system) and disk volumes. What would be possible, but a real PAIN, would be to connect such a thing to your zSeries locally. Have the z/OS (or z/VSE or z/VM or z/Linux) write their data to an FakeTape(tm) volume which is on the local FlexCUB system. Have this FlexCUB system, which runs Linux, export the filesystem containing the FakeTape(tm) volumes using NFS or some other such software. Now, on the far end, have another PC running Linux with a SCSI attached tape drive import that filesystem. You'd likely need to VPN the two systems together over the Internet or a dedicated IP line (your choice). On the remote PC, have a daemon (or cron scheduled task) which can copy the FakeTape(tm) to an actual physical tape. There is a utility to do this from Funsoft. This would assume that the FakeTape(tm) on the FLEXCUB system would always be considered the authoritative source for the data on the particular volume. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
