I have been doing some research on tapeless virtual tape systems and have come across an offering from a company called Luminex which has a 'Channel Gateway' which emulates mainframe tape systems connected either via FICON or ESCON - it can use any backend storage.
It seems that this 'Channel Gateway' is normally configured on a Sun server running Solaris - I am not sure what they use for physical channel attachment. I'm wondering if there is any merit on this software being ported to zLinux and OpenSolaris - we already have the mainframe and real FICON channels. Is OpenSolaris on zLinux viable or is it still in early development? Has anyone actually have real life experience with the Luminex product ? Thoughts ?? Rgds Bern ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
