Well, it was easy to predict: There are no more tapes!
What media could you order?
CST, ECCST (3480, 3490E) - not marketed for years, no native
connectivity (ESCON)
MAGSTAR - also out of market for years. And no compatible products from
othe vendors. Connectivity is ESCON or FICON, but no direct connection
is possible (16Gbps FICON can talk on 8Gbps or 4 Gbps).
JAGUAR - the last drive natively attachable to z/OS is TS1140. Is it
still marketed? Nowadays we have TS1150 and TS1155. TS1140 is 1,5
generation back.
Last, but not least - other tape vendors do not produce anything
compatible with media delivered by IBM. Actually I should say "vendor"
not "vendorS", because only STK/Sun/Oracle produce real tapes for z/OS.
BTW: When I read about "strict procedures" allowing tapes but not DVD,
auditors checking foil sealings or threats regarding migration to
Windows...
Is it IBM-MAIN or elementary school ?
Of course some shops do have strict rules, mostly it is stupidity not
security, but they had to manage tape carts in the past. Now they have
to establish process for DVDs (or other methods). BTW: How they get
PTFs? AFAIK tape delivery for PTFs is not available for years - so they
HAVE some process to put PTFs to z/OS or they do not apply any PTFs
(???) or ...the story is simply unreal.
That remains me the discussion about HMC call home functionality when
modem was dropped and replaced with VPN.
Oh, I prefer tapes fo ServerPac installation. I will miss them. Now I'm
going to prepare huge ZFS for ServerPac. Easy, I have a lot of time for
that.
Regards
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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