Hi Ann,
When you say VMTAPE ... I assume you mean CA's VM:Tape product.
If this is the case, just call CA's VM Customer Support or open an issue
yourself for VM:Tape via CASupport so we can get a bit more information
about your configuration and make some recommendations about what the
best options are for what you need to do.
JR
JR (Steven) Imler
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel: +1 703 708 3479
Fax: +1 703 708 3267
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 02:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Question about virtual tape in a zVM environment
We are running zVM 5.2 and currently still have manual 3490 tape
drives.
We may soon be getting an IBM DS8300 (shared with zOS) with
TS1120 virtual tape.
We have 5 VM systems with separate VMTAPE catalogs.
They currently do not have any native physical tape drives
planned for the VM systems.
We normally do maintenance on 1 VM system and use DDR and
SPXTAPE to propogate to the other VM systems.
Is anyone familiar with using virtual tape with DDR and SPXTAPE?
Can I just VMTAPE mount the virtual tape as a FOREIGN tape and
be able to do DDR restore and/or SPXTAPE load?
I am also wondering about how to do SPXTAPE's for DR.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Ann Smith
Mainframe Systems Support -zVM and zLinux Support
Integrated Technology Delivery
IBM Global Service Integrated Operations At The Hartford
Work phone: 860-547-6110
Pager: 800-204-6367
Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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