It's really a subjective thing, they all are mature and very good. Each works a bit differently, and I think if you're trying to decide which to buy, it really comes down to price.
There are people who love each of the tape management systems, then there are those that hate them all equally:). If you want a comparison of the various systems, you can probably find them on the web sites of those products. They truly seem to love to compare themselves to other ones. It's kind of like deciding between Syncsort and DF/Sort. Again, both are great products (even CA-sort isn't bad from a certain point of view:). It just really comes down to who will give you the best price. You might want to write down a list of what features you absolutely have to have and go to each vendor and ask them to write a reply to your list to explain how each is accomplished. That will not only give you a cheat sheet, but will show you which one has the best support turnaround. If you have a specific question about a specific feature, then you will probably get a good response from the people on this list, otherwise, people on the list tend to get testy when someone is just fishing around for answers without asking any questions. It really is difficult to format a technical reply when you don't really have a technical question to reply to. Good luck, Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
