Gadi, In that case, simply use CA-1/Copycat to copy (and stack) as many virtual-volumes on the sending site as you need to transfer to a physical tape (the big assumption is that there is at least 1 tape drive that is native attached) and then on the receiving site you can use something as simple as IEBGENER to copy the stacked tape files onto in-house tapes. Or read them directly from the physical tape shipped from the sending site.
Russell -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of גדי בן אבי Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS Hi Russell, Both sites use CA-1 as the TMS. Both have CA-COPYCAT installed. Our site does not have DITTO licensed. Gadi -----Original Message----- From: Russell Witt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:53 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Cc: גדי בן אבי Subject: RE: Transferring data from a different site that uses VTS Gadi, You do not mention if you have a tape management system at both sites; and if so which one(s). Most tape management systems (CA-1, TLMS, rmm) have a tape-coping utility available and there is a third-party one called TAPECOPY that can be used. What you could do would be to copy all the tape files to a physical tape at the sending site and then copy those files to tapes at the receiving site. This is with the assumption that there is at least 1 physical drive that is directly connected at both locations. If the sending site has NO tape drives attached directly to the system (everything is virtual); then that is not possible. In that case, you would have to perform an EXPORT with the VTS (where the virtual-volumes you want sent to you are stacked onto a single physical cartridge that is then ejected from the 3494). On your site, using IBM's OSDITTO you can then "un-stack" the virtual volumes from the stacked volume onto real tapes. You must have the current IBM licensed version of OSDITTO to perform this function. Russell Witt CA-1 L2 Support Manager ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
