One other solution I forgot is to expand the storage array and eliminate tape by keeping everything on DASD.
Not sure what your shop is looking to do, but these are some options. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sources for learing about state of the art Mainframe Virtual and physical tape? The easiest would be to go to vendor sites to see what they support. Current offerings I know about are from IBM TS7720 EMC DLm Tape solutions Hitachi Fujitsu Luminex Then there is also software tapeless solutions CA VTAPE Or you can search the internet for Virtual Tapes and Mainframe or Tapeless Mainframes Also, if your company is a member of Share.org then you can search the archives for presentations on tapeless solutions for the mainframe Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Sources for learing about state of the art Mainframe Virtual and physical tape? Newbie open systems backup admin. here being thrown into mainframe storage. We have some very old VTS systems and I'm looking for credible education / journals on "state of the art" in mainframe tape (VTS) storage. Anyone have any reccomendations of online or print journals, trade magazines, blogs? Thanks, Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
