Dan, Call TLMS L1 support as well. You may already be licensed for TLMS/Copycat; which will allow you to copy all those files from the virtual tapes to a couple of 3590e cartridges. You can use EARL or the Vantage/GMI gui interface to select those files you want copied; and have the output list be fed directly to Copycat.
Russell Witt TLMS L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: What Now? The VTS thing is working fine for in-house stuff. Now there is a push to copy/convert all the offsite permanent volumes to stacked exported tapes. The problem? We don't have a clue on how to get started on this beastie. We're using TapeCopy as our engine and I can run all sorts of reports and create the jobs, but we have 6,300 tapes and 10,500 datasets to move from 3480 and 3490 to stacked 3590e tapes. That's a lot of manual stuff... The Redbook on VTS is of some help, but not from a practical standpoint. Would anyone care to share their experiences with us? Somehow this got pretty much dropped in tech's lap and it's mostly TLMS type work. (We install it...not run it) TIA... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
