Hi John, OAM uses DB2 to maintain information about the objects. Here is the quote from the OAM Planning Guide
"Object Storage and Retrieval (OSR). Component of OAM that stores, retrieves, and deletes objects. OSR stores objects in the storage hierarchy and maintains the information about these objects in DB2 databases. " Doug On Tue, 7 May 2013 08:57:01 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >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 OAM is obsolete.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. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
