> [ ... good case for doing TSM on zSeries for specific customer with SCSI tape already in place ... ] > Most of the > pre-reqs were already there.
This is the key sentence. I agree that it made sense for this customer -- but they are the exception, not the rule in terms of equipment present in their environment. Have a look around at your other established customers and compare the number who have SCSI attached storage and tape, and then count the number which have ESCON/FICON attached storage systems and tape. In any rational world, I'd expect the "recommended" product to support both, particularly given the non-trivial investment we're talking about in hardware. Enterprise-class ATLs aren't cheap, and adding a 3590 is a expensive proposition, both in terms of cost and real estate in the silo, especially if those drives are inaccessible to the other hosts using the silo. If you've already got them, great -- lucky you. Most people don't, and asking someone to spend $35K or more for a tape drive that their other systems can't benefit from is a bit silly in my book - almost as silly as forcing them to buy a whole new operating system with punitive software licensing models to use hardware they already have paid for for a basic task like backups. And Tivoli wonders why TSM doesn't do very well in the marketplace... -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
