Alain, It does sound like you have a "single point of control" that most shops do not have ...
--> a single LPAR --> a single z/VM --> all z/OS machines running as guests under the z/VM This makes the situation far less complicated. However, I think in this case, ATTACH MULTIUSER will defeat you rather than help you out. JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Benveniste Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to share tape drives The context: I learnt few time ago that my client wanted to migrate VM applications to= Unix. 1 problem was the price to do the work : 5 years of VM maintenance.= My idea is that he is in a situation were he would like to see VM doing works really important to not stop using it. Ex : A main task like MVS un= der a VM in a disaster/recovery config. The next main task is to restore our= complete environment with VM. I think he wants to see what VM is capable = to do to maintain it./ At this time I just want to compare the tool we have to share tapes with = how VM could do the same work. I didn't mentionned an important thing. I am n= ot thinking to developp what CA-MIM or other products do but just trace the products we have to use them all together to do the work better than the actual tool (a real effort to maintain it since I'm not the author). I thought to use AutoOperator (TOM), a product which trappes MVS messages= , able to vary on/off drives or to converse with VM. At this time I just ta= ke pleasure how I would do it if it was my job to write this tool :) Alain
