Lizette, VDR (Virtual Data Recovery) is much more then a just a tape stacker. Automating the stacking of VTL data to hi-density tape using a different dataset name prevents any impact on production tape processes.
The recovery side of VDR allows you to recover/unstack the stacked datasets to another VTL, native tapes or disk. You can also have VDR do an INPlace recovery, which renames the VDR datasets to the original dataset name, no data movement, and allows applications to access the data directly from the stacked tape. Of course, the ICF and Tape management catalogs are updated. By the way, if you are writing HSM ML2 to Virtual VDR can also copy those and recover them at the DR site and automatically update HSM about the new tape VOLSER. Please give me a call to discuss the many features available. Regards, Don Don Bolton Director Technical Services & Development 800-460-3011 Phone www.OpentechSystems.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Virtual Tape Stacking Software Gentle Listers - I have searched the archives and found a lot of discussion but nothing I was looking for. We currently have Open Tech to stack virtual tapes on one physical 3590 tape (VDR). Are there any other equivilents or is Open Tech it. We are running z/OS V1.7 with DFSMShsm. We also have DFDSS and a couple of CA products (CA1). We need to compare the Open Tech process with other vendor(s) to ensure we have the right tool for the right function. Any ideas will be appreciated. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
