>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 12:49 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hall, Ken
(GTI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Near as we can tell, tape_3590 drivers are for FICON attached drives,

That is correct.

> and aren't actually supported anymore.  If you poke around the IBM web

That is not correct.  They are still fully supported.

> pages, they tell you to switch to the lin_tape drivers, and FCP attached
> tape.  We've been trying to set up TSM server on zLinux, and that's the
> only supported configuration.

Again, correct.  That was a (fairly incomprehensible)  decision by Tivoli that 
had nothing to do with FICON tape support continuing or going away.  I suppose 
they thought they could drive a lot of hardware sales, but all they did was 
immensely limit the adoption of their own software.  Not that they've ever let 
that worry them in the past...


Mark Post

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