Mike, Of course you can have a full-functional "virtual tape" solution without the hardware, its called CA-Vtape ;}
With CA-Vtape, you use your existing DASD as the cache for staging the virtual volumes but how much cache you have will depend on how quickly you want to backstore to the physical tape(s). The more cache you have, the less often you would need to perform the backstore operation. And, it is not priced on a MIPS basis; but rather on how many virtual-UCB's you need. So, it is very easy to scale it to your needs. Very similar to TMM (which will also use your dasd as the staging place); but doesn't require any JCL changes or even any SMS construct changes. Russell Witt CA L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Mike Myers Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TMM with CA-1 and STK Silo I am looking for information on how I can do "virtual tape" using the capabilities of DFSMS in an environment where we have CA-1 as our tape management system and are using a StorageTek silo for our automated tape library. Currently we are using a StorageTek VSM unit, which we would like to get rid of. Does anyone know if it is possible to create and manage virtual tape functions using the above without the VSM hardware? If so, can you provide me some references that would help in the implementation? Mike Myers 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
