On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:29:10 -0500, Brian Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've done a MIM to GRS Star conversion at two different shops, and I thought >it was pretty easy. > >Its easy IF: > >SYS-plex = GRS-plex = SMS-plex = TAPE-DEVICE-SHARING-plex > >It is NOT easy if you HAVE to share dasd beyond the boundary of a sysplex. >In my case, I fixed that first, and then once the Sysplex boundary was the >same as the shared-dasd boundary, then the project was easy. > >My opinion. > Ditto. MIM displays help a lot. ATS star can also handle foreign tapes if you can't make sysplex = TAPE-DEVICE-SHARING-plex (but MIA is still an option on its own as is IBM ATAM (Automated Tape Allocation Manager). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
