The 3584 Tape library will *have to be* ESCON or FICON attached to the mainframe to be usable with DFSMS/VM RMS and/or CA VM:Tape.
As was mentioned by others, CMS applications like DFSMS/VM RMS and CA VM:Tape can not use tape drives that are attached to the mainframe via SCSI ... only a Linux guest can utilize SCSI attached mainframe tape drives. JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Sustaining Engineer Tel: +1-703-708-3479 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barbara Andrews Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 01:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3584 support in vm tape manager software Is your 3584 attached to VM FC or Ficon? >From the other response I received from this post "If the 3584 Tape Library is managed by DFSMS/VM RMS on z/VM, then CA VM:Tape will interfac= e with it via DFSMS/VM RMS" and the following statement I found in an IBM = Tape Manager manual "An automated tape library is supported by Tape Manager only if it is supported by RMS.", it sounds like no matter which = tape manager product we use, the dependency is on what DFSMS/VM RMS on = z/VM supports. So my additional question is.... Does anyone out there = know if it is possible to use a tape library that is attached via FC with= DFSMS/VM RMS on z/VM?
