Ummmm..... IBM? Are you there? Can you hear me? Would like to drive a TS7700 from Linux. Pretty please?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dave Jones > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Linux on z and VTS == compatible at all? > > Then, as DB has noted, you're basically SOL.....sorry. > > DJ > > Little, Chris wrote: > > Channel attached. > > > > We're running TSM on z/OS. With the level of utilization, though, > > it's getting to be expensive. We were looking to cut costs > by moving > > the server to engines with flat pricing. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of > >> David Boyes > >> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 7:46 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Linux on z and VTS == compatible at all? > >> > >>> What is the possibility of reliably running TSM server on > Linux with > >> the > >>> backups going to our brand spanking new clustered TS7700? > >>> I couldn't find any literature supporting it. > >> If it's channel-attached, then the probability is exactly > zero. TSM > >> on Linux doesn't do channel-attached tape. If you had TSM > on z/OS -- > >> or even the old TSM on VM server -- you could drive it > that way using > >> DFSMS/VM RMM and use server-to-server migration to get the TSM > >> servers to work together. > >> > >> I don't know of anyone using it via FCP attached tape. The generic > >> SCSI changer commands don't seem to work very reliably; > the only SCSI > >> VTS I have access to seems to hang reliably when presented > with SCSI > >> changer commands. This makes the PTBs unhappy, so I've stopped > >> trying. > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> - 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 > > -- > DJ > V/Soft > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
