>AFAIK the latest Jaguar drive TS1150 aka 3592-E08 is not supported under >z/OS directly. Is it (still) true? Any plans to change it?
Well, tape drives have "never" been supported by z/OS "directly." In the most recent past you had to have an IBM 3592 Tape Controller Model C07, a physical piece of equipment, sitting in between your mainframe and your tape drive(s)/library, even if you only had a single, standalone tape drive. >BTW: TS1150 can be used as backend drive by TS7700 virtual tape server, >but I mean direct or native support. The IBM TS7720 is your new, smarter tape controller. As it happens, your new tape controller also includes virtual tape features. There's no longer any need to have a separate IBM 3592 controller for your physical tape drives and libraries. There used to be a need for single, standalone tape drives for initial operating system loading purposes. Nowadays DVD is the preferred physical distribution media for initial operating system loads and for other scenarios requiring physical media software distribution. As far as I know there are no plans to introduce or re-introduce a less talented tape controller, but you can "ask your friendly IBM representative." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
