Hello Elardus, My responses are below.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > venkat kulkarni wrote: > > >We are in the process of migrating physical tape to virtual tape. > > > Careful, this is not for fainthearted. ;-) > > > >I am unable to find any process and JCL which can copy all my data > residing in physical tape cartridge to virtual tape using JCL . > > I have a lot of questions: > > What datasets? HSM? DFDSS Dump/Copy? GDG? Copies/backups from > IEBGENER/IEBCOPY/Whatever? Specific backups from database sysyem(s)? JES2 > Offloads? etc.? etc.? > Ans : Its backup from IEBGENER/IEBCOPY/ which are volume copy and individual dataset copy. > How large are they? How many of them (tapes and datasets) are there? > > Ans : We have approx 1000 tapes to be migrated. and each individual tape contain approx upto 150 serial number dataset. > What physical tape system(s) and media do you have? > > Ans Its old 359E. > What Virtual Tape System(s) do you have? > > Ans : we are using DLM EMC. > What Tape Management system do you have? > > Ans : We dont have any tape management system . > Are these datasets stacked on the tapes? In other words, are LABEL > 1 > being used? (One VTS, they're usually on LABEL=(1,SL) for compatibility > reasons) > > ans : Yes, we are stack on tape. with label 1 to label 150. . > Are these datasets Cataloged? If not, you'll have to [ usually ] catalog > them on VTS and of course, RACF is your big pal. > > Ans : These dataset are in tapes. Directly from physical tape to VTL. > Are you going to switch off those physical tape system(s)? > > Ans : After this migration, we will shutdown . > I have probably more questions, but ... > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
