We implemented CA-VTAPE for DR purposes. It's excellent. We don't use the SMS controls to direct output to it, but it does support it. Personally I think it's superior to the IBM VTS machines we have. Just download the manuals from CA, they'r reasonably good.
Jeff Williams Operating Systems Support -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Mike Myers Sent: December 18, 2008 11:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Virtual Tape options Hi: The situation here is that the mainframe is being phased out (estimates are that it will be gone by the end of 2010). Expenditures on hardware and software are being curtailed as the workload migrates to the servers. We have an STK silo supporting virtual tape with VSM 3, which is no longer supported after the end of the year. The upgrade to VSM 4 is very expensive and not going to be done. The alternatives seem to be: find someone to support VSM 3 on a per-call basis or find another method of providing virtual tape. I'm looking for the alternate method. We have DFSMS and CA-1. I understand that SMS has a virtual tape capability, but want to know if anyone has ever implemented SMS-managed virtual tape with CA-1. Is it possible? If so, where might I go for implementation information? Mike Myers z/OS System Programmer Pitt County Memorial Hospital ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
