We just migrated off the Luminex solution to EMC/BusTech MDL. While on Luminex, we never had any issues with SPXTAPE or SPTAPE for that matter.
Martin V. Benedict, Sr. Sr. Systems Programmer IT Department The Golub Corporation - Price Chopper Markets 461 Nott Street Schenectady, New York, 12308 Phone: 518-379-1261 Cellular: 518-788-3742 Fax: 518-379-3514 www.pricechopper.com [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Neidhardt Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Luminex vtape Jim, I'm using a Luminex tape server with zVM 5.3 and I just used SPXTAPE to dump a user's RDR to tape. I attached a Luminex drive to my userid as 181, did a tapeload command to mount a volume (I could have used the GUI to do that too), and used this version of the command: spxtape dump 181 user xxxxxxxx rdr all rewind You may just have to mount a volser before you start. > We have Luminex vtape. The Luminex code provides tape support emulating > IBM 3590 drives with the actual hardware being on Sun dasd. Everything > seems to work with the exception of SPXTAPE. Does anyone else have > Luminex vtape? Has anyone found anything that does not work? > > Jim > > -- > James Bohnsack > (972) 596-6377 home/office > (972) 342-5823 cell Ed Neidhardt Mainline Information Systems, Inc. 770-321-0841 Office 888-257-7063 Fax [email protected]
