Hi John, Yes, tape infomation is kept in TCDB (ie VOLCAT's). We use IBM's Content Manager on Demand and that use's OAM to store and retrieve objects (statements, reports, etc). The information about these objects is what is kept in DB2. The objects themselves are resides on disk or tape.
Doug On Tue, 7 May 2013 09:53:36 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >I'll need to read up on that. We use OAM for our SMS managed tapes, but >don't have DB2. So it must be for something other than tapes. I was under >the impression that OAM was only for SMS managed tapes and optical disk. >guess I was wrong. > >On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Doug Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
