Daniel, You CAN hook the 3584/TS3500 up to the z-box as others have mentioned. However, the devil is in the details. What kind of tape drives are currently in the 3584? IFAIK, you cannot use LTO drives in the 3584 on the z890, you would have to purchase 3592 (TS7700, TS1120, TS1130) drives to put in the shell. In addition, to attach the 3584 to the z890, you would need to invest in a tape controller. What this is under the covers amounts to a p520 machine that translates the Ficon or ESCON commands into fibre-channel or SCSI commands to pass to the tape drives.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel McLaughlin Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3584 ATL and ZOS Thanks to all. You confirmed my suspicions. Have to tell the guy we can't hook a chicken box to the Clydesdale. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
