Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >NO MORE TAPES connected directly to the z/OS. The last physical drive >TS1140 is out of support.
I don't think IBM ever offered any physical tape drives directly connected to z/OS, i.e. physical tape drives with FICON or ESCON ports on them. The IBM TS1140 certainly wasn't connected directly. The TS1140 (and its predecessors, for decades) required a tape controller of some kind for z/OS machine connection. For the TS1140 it was either a 3592-C07 or TS7600 as I recall. Do you mean something like "non-virtualized physical tape" perhaps? [What was the most recent IBM physical tape drive with parallel (bus/tag), ESCON, or FICON ports on it?] — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
