Mark: Thanks for the reply. Someone else will be looking at the out of service support (either from Sun/STK or from a 3rd party). Does your remark "TMM with HSM, ... probably isn't an alternative.", based on the inability of TMM/HSM to deal with existing virtual tape volumes. Suppose that those existing virtual tapes will age out of significance in the near future. If that were the case, could TMM/HSM support the creation and management of future virtual tapes? Could it do it in a CA-1 environment? Mike Myers
>>> "Mark Zelden" <[email protected]> 12/18/2008 11:54 AM >>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:23:32 -0500, Mike Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >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? > Have you tried negotiating any type of extended support to just fix hardware failures with Sun/STK? I have no idea how many virtual tape volumes are part of your library, but any conversion to another "tape" alternative is going to cost you. If you are referring to TMM with HSM, that probably isn't an alternative. There are also 3rd party vendors like Quest: http://www.questinc.com/. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The contents of this e-mail (and any attachments) are confidential, may be privileged and may contain copyright material. You may only reproduce or distribute material if you are expressly authorized by us to do so. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email (and any attachments) is unauthorized. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and immediately delete this e-mail and any copies of it from your system. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
