Anyone out there sharing tape devices outside of a Sysplex? I'd like to share stand-alone 3590, TS3500 Automated Tape Library (SMS managed), and/or a VTS.
CA-1 is tape product. Seems they support their tape DB's shared with reserve/release when separated by volume properly. Sharing ATL would require sharing VOLCAT's which seems supported. Not clear if GRS required for serialization of VOLCAT or if reserve/release is sufficient. Does GRS require Sysplex or will CTC work? OAM planning says systems should be in the same SMSPlex but I haven't seen that term fully defined (same ACDS / SCDS?) Autoswitch seems to require sysplex. Manual varying wouldn't be horrible if all else works. Thanks for any advice (other than getting a CF, which I see the value of but not the guys with the $). Ken Smith State of Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
