"R.S." <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > Ted MacNEIL pisze: > >> If you have a virtual library you more than likely have an automated library. > > > > Why would you say that? > > The last two shops I worked at did not. > > We had a couple of non-VTS drives for external tapes, but none were automated. > > Apples and oranges. > If you have VTS then you have real tape drives is automated library as
> well. Well, at least vast majority of shops (using VTS) do use VTS > solutions made by IBM and STK - both are using real ATL as a backend. > You can also have some stand-alone drives, but as an addition, > completely unrelated to VTS. > There are some niche VTS solutions where no real tape is required > (required <> allowed). > > > Regarding to original topic - yes, it is feasible to move HSM data from > 3590 to VTS virt 3490E. The best method IMHO is recycling. Number of > volumes probably will increase, but it depends on PERCENTVALID. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland To clear up some possible confusion I seem to read: the TS7700 VTS indeed has a automated tapelibrary in it, but it is entirely internal to the TS7700 and not visible nor usable for z/OS. The TS7700 also has a DS4800 inside, which z/OS will never see nor use either. 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
