It is what I understood from announcement, once tape drives will not connect directly to z/OS channel but to VTS for destage. VTS emulates 3490/3590 and can destage to any kind of tape, it is just a bunch of bits to be recorded in tape.
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 20:39 Para: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Assunto: Re: RES: TS1140 tape transports Does it mean one can replace his TS1140 drives with LTO? I don't think so. Correction: I don't think it is possible for z/OS or VTS clients. Note: Windows/Unix host could use TS1140 natively. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 28.10.2021 o 16:51, Bodra - Pessoal pisze: > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
