>IBM decided for what were felt to be good reasons to provide a TSM server on Linux under z/VM rather than on CMS under z/VM.
Not disputing your facts, Jim, but it would have been a lot more helpful if the TSM server for Linux had included support for escon-attached tape drives and the ability to communicate with VM-based tape catalogs and tape management systems such as VM:Tape. As it stands, it seems to me to be pretty useless in a multi-linux VM environment with tape silos, especially when those silos are shared among multiple VM LPARs. "An Optimist is just a pessimist with no job experience." - Scott Adams Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. Boeing Enterprise Servers 425-865-5940 > ---------- > From: Jim Elliott > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Backup of Virtual Linuxes [WAS: Re: Red Hat AS 3.0] > > > So let me understand this correctly.... Tivoli=IBM - didn't IBM > > buy the Tivoli mark, kinda like they did with Lotus? VM=IBM. > > IBM makes the Virtualization software we all come to depend on > > to make the linux equation work. So what we have here is IBM > > saying they will not update their own software to run on their > > own software. This makes about as much sense as Microsoft > > deciding not to put the next version of IE out for XP, when the > > operating system after XP is not out the door. > > James: > > IBM decided for what were felt to be good reasons to provide a > TSM server on Linux under z/VM rather than on CMS under z/VM. > There were technical reasons for this (which we will NOT go into > in this forum) which made it difficult to continue to enhance the > CMS based TSM, especially when a Linux based TSM could be easily > provided and kept current. > > Jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
