I have been reviewing entries in both lists and it appears that VM and VSE neither have a easy way of move virtual tape volumes from the VTS to and external tape media for offsite storage. I have been told that MVS has a facility (copy extract) to do this. For VSE I guess we could use Ditto tape copy to move virtual tapes to real one would be an option. One would need to write a rexx program to read a tape catalog/tape report and build the job to stack the tapes on one real tape. Is this the only option in VSE. Is there anything in VM.
I guess I also find it hard to believe that the VTS itself has no internal/ backend process to do this. I have dual posted this query Thanks for your comments Hans
