"Jim Marshall" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<listserv%[email protected]>... > Does anyone have any experience with a tape copy utility called Tape/Assist > from 21stCenturySoftware. I know of Tivoli Tape Optimizer for z/OS, > Innovations FATSCOPY and Opentech's TAPECOPY. These all have varying > degrees of expense from reasonable to expensive. > > The objective is to use the utility to migrate data from a very old IBM VTS to > a not too old VTS and then recatalog the files along with updating the RMM > entries. Like to understand if anyone has done this with Tape/Assist for the > cost is a bit unbelieveable (in the hundreds of dollars versus thousands for the > others). > > Let know either onlist of offlist. jim
Some other thought: you don't have to worry about the filling of the virtual tapes, right, even on your not so very old VTS? Can you then copy the tapes without stacking? I have done this before: get a list of datasets to convert and their RMM information and generate IEBCOPY JCL and RMM update control statements for each dataset (I did for CA-1). I usually do this with SAS, others are more familiar with Rexx to do this. Is this an option? Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
