Hum, what does OAM use DB2 for? I was under the impression that it was only
for optical disk. Obviously I was wrong.

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Doug Henry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John,
> I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the elevator company is not for
> Optical Disk. OAM uses OTIS to interface to DB2. We have a large OAMPLEX
> and have never had optical disk but we do need OTIS.
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2013 07:10:42 -0500, John McKown <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >You're right. OAM is for tape management. OTIS is for Optical disk. I am
> >simply not going to reply to messages after taking a sleeping aid any
> more.
> >
> >On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> OAM is used for SMS Tape management.
> >>
> >> Lizette
> >>
> >> OAM is obsolete. Remember mainframe based optical drives? That's what
> OAM
> >> was for. It interfaced with DB2 which was where it kept it's catalog.
> OTIS
> >> was in there too, somewhere.
> >>
>
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