> >Providing an iSCSI target server virtual machine for CMS that understood > >channel-attached tape drives would cure a lot of my complaints about > >losing the CMS TSM server. (The Linux TSM server understands iscsi > >targets).
It also occurs to me that this approach would eliminate the need for the specialized Linux OCO device drivers entirely (assuming that you also just require VM instead of supporting LPAR). > Why is it that z/Linux can talk to a channel attached 3590 but TSM > can't? Cynical speculation: it's not that it wouldn't work, but it would take additional testing which Tivoli doesn't have time or resources to do in order to certify it. It would also cut into sales of new tape drives and SAN hardware.
