Frank, while I think having a simple virtual tape server for CNMS is a good idea, it wouldn't solve our problems with SPXTAPE; it does not use the normal CMS tape i/o routines to read/write tape. I believe it constructs it's own tape CCWs and bypasses all of CMS tape handling.
On 10/06/2010 12:24 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > It would be nice if z/VM had a virtual tape server that would intercept > tape requests and store them on CMS minidisk and to retrieve them as > well. This could be used for more than just SPXTAPE. > > > Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of RPN01 > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IPL VM/VM Issues > > I think this is an issue that needs to be addressed. This is a critical > set > of files, which z/VM only has tools to back up to tape, and many sites > no > longer even have tape drives to use to create these tape backups. We no > longer have any tape drives, real or virtual, attached to the systems, > so > SPXTAPE does us absolutely no good. > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
