Alan Ackerman wrote:
How is "Emulated Tape" different from the VTAPE product from VSSI (Virtua
l
Software Systems, Inc.)? That already exists -- see
<http://www.vsoftsys.com/default.htm>.
Is what you are asking for better than VTAPE -- or are you just asking IB
M
to provide free what you can already get for a price? IBM might not want
to undercut a VM vendor.
We have both VPARS and VTAPE -- but only on one VM system. This was
installed to support TPF testing. The z/OS guests also make use of VTAPE.
I think these are expensive products -- but I really don't know what we
pay for them.
On Tue, 23 May 2006 09:32:07 -0500, Tom Duerbusch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The one thing I didn't understand on "why we don't have emulated tape
already?", is:
It's already available in VSE.
Is this one of those things, that if CMSDOS was kept up to date, like
it was in VSE/SP days (i.e. library access), would we already have it?
Of course the VSE component is called Virtual Tape and that may be
somewhat different then Emulated Tape. But from my perspective, I would
take either.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
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Compared to other vendors,VSSI would not be considered expensive. They
have a complete price list on their web site (www.vsoftsys.com). Their
products are a bargain compared to the cost of the hardware
infrastructure that they replace.
