Do you really need to 'move' tapes/tape files from one sysplex to another,
or do you just need to be able to access and manage any tape from any
sysplex?
Even before we had sysplex, we provided 'universal tape' through a
combination of channel extension and volser range segregation, exit code in
MIM/MIA, and an RYO utility that creates catalog entries in 'other' systems
that don't 'own' a particular tape volser. Any system can read or write a
tape file to any drive in either data center. Any job can create a local or
remote tape file simply by using the appropriate esoteric, such as TAPE or
TAPER.
Over time we replaced the old channel extender with FICON DWDM, but all the
other components remain as before.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
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Hi,
What tools and techniques are you using to move large tape (VTS normally)
resident data sets from one Sysplex to another?
We are creating our third Sysplex and see that in this case we are going to
have data sets which are routinely created on tape in one that need to be
moved to another.
These two Sysplex may someday be geographically separated and we don't want
to use a solution like export to a tape cart and go stick it in a different
ATL.
All transfers are z/OS to z/OS only.
IBM z/OS FTP and CA-XCOM are already deployed in these LPARs but there is
discussion as to weather we need a different approach for tape data sets.
So what do you do?
We have some IBM consultants pushing MQ
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/filetransfer/index.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/products/appintegration/hiddenrisk/
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
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