An interesting fact in this announcement that could be a light for the future is the recommendation for installations that use up to 15TB of tape processing daily to use the TS7770 with TS4300 and LTO8 or LTO9 units, which will certainly reduce the cost of media acquisition.
The LTO units will only be used for destage and offsite storage, not being accessed directly by the zSystem via the ficon channel, even because the 3592-C07 control unit is no longer marketed. Extracted from announcement letter ( https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS921-136&appname=USN ) Mainframes For smaller environments with less than 15 TB daily, C06/C07, migrate to the Rack Mount IBM TS7770 with TS4300 with LTO drives. This requires an RPQ. For larger environments with more than 15 TB daily, C06/C07, migrate to the TS7700 and use the Copy Export functionality. For TS7700 virtual environments, migrate TS1140 tape drives to TS1150s tape drives. All drives need to be migrated as the TS7700 must have the same type and model of backend drives. Carlos Bodra IBM zEnterprise Certified São Paulo – SP – Brazil -----Mensagem original----- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Em nome de Radoslaw Skorupka Enviada em: quinta-feira, 28 de outubro de 2021 08:42 Para: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Assunto: Re: TS1140 tape transports W dniu 26.10.2021 o 22:54, Pommier, Rex pisze: > Hi list, > > Was I the only one caught flat-footed with the IBM announcement today that in > just over 4 months (2/28/2022), they're dropping support on TS1140 tape > transports? Was there an earlier announcement that this was coming and I > just missed it or was this the first notification? What's wrong with that? TS1140 is ~10 years old. There are TS1150, TS1155 and TS1160. As far as I know. any existing support contract will not be affected by the EOS announcement. Just no new support contracts for dates after 2022-02-28. And of course no drive will stop functioning just because of the announcement. Last, but not least, third party service companies will still support it as well as older equipment. The only interesting thing I see here - it is the last native tape drive supported by z/OS. I feel like with 3390 - no more drives, just disk arrays and emulation. And, to complement - there are very few virtual tape solutions with real tapes on backend. And very few tape manufacturers. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
