My recommendation for this project would be a third-party software product called Tape/Copy from Prince Software (at least, that was the owner a few years ago). I used this software for a migration and stacking/re-stacking of 3480 cartridge to 3490 cartridge in a shop that used CA-1/TMS. This software allowed us to completely eliminate 3480 cartridges and even (shudder!) a few left-over 3420 reel-tapes before we sold the old drives for scrap.
I recommend this software, because it can do what you need to do: - stack multiple input volumes onto one or more output volumes based on selection and filter criteria you specify - properly recatalog the datasets - properly update RMM to manage the new tapes as well as expire the old ones - for ease of tape management, combine datasets with the same expiration date onto one or more cartridges. You can also specify a range of days to group datasets with similar expiration dates (from x to x+30 days is one cart., x+31 to x+60 days is another cart, etc) - create duplex copies - manage the stacked tapes to re-copy/combine underutilized tapes as datasets expire over time. If you're interested in hearing more about this software, you can contact me offline and, of course, contact the vendor to get the latest product information. Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kandi, Santosh Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Offsite archival of MVS datasets <snipped > I am wondering how other shops are addressing this scenario and is there a way to manage this via HSM/RMM? Also are they any 3rd party products that would do the above? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
