The auto loader only holds and mounts physical tapes into the physical tape drive.
Items to consider: 1) A tape drive(s) would need to be rented & potentially an auto-loader(s) 2) IODEF work done if tape drives have been removed in the past 3) Change management window(s) scheduled to implement the changes and then remove them 4) Schedule the workload so the current virtual tape solution disk cache is not over run 5) Make decisions around new vol ser's to be used versus migration in place and the impacts to the tape catalog and application JCL 6) BC / DR considerations 7) Replication to second, third and possibly fourth sites and the impact on the disk storage at all the sites 8) Temporary impact on the links between sites I am sure I am missing many other considerations. Just a few thought that immediately jump out. Hope it helps. Chuck Formica PMP NE / Canada Division Sales Manager, EMC CORE Technologies Division - Mainframe Products cell: 1.860.918.7049, email [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3480/3490 Tape Migration Services This may be a silly thought. Could you attach something like a 3490 autoloader to your Virtual tape system and just do the process in house. Maybe rent one (limited lease)? Some of the considerations for this might be 1) security of the data on the tape 2) if there are tape errors, easier and faster turnaround time on the errors. 3) Cost of device (possible rental) vs. cost of outside vendor. 4) Less cost doing it in-house rather than outside. You may have already consider these things, but I had to ask. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Pfister, Nathan > Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: 3480/3490 Tape Migration Services > > List; > > I am possibly looking to contract out a migration of legacy data > mainly housed > on 3480 and 3490 tapes. We no longer have the capability to read > these tapes (as we no longer have the drives necessary) so I want to > virtualize these tapes (z/OS and VSE tapes both). I was wondering if > anyone could recommend any company that could do this type of > migration that you may have worked with in the past. > > Thanks; > > Nathan Pfister > Systems Programmer > Donegal Insurance Group > *800-877-0600, ext 7548 > *[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
