Implementing DLm with VM:Tape is fairly easy. Does not use DFSMSrmm. I set it 
up several years ago at UnitedHealth/Optum. No longer have access. 😊


I passed on doc to Rick Barlow several months ago, so he may be able to share 
his experience.


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From: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> on behalf of David Boyes 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Any success stories using EMC DLm's with z/VM and Linux?

Haven’t done it myself, so just speculating, but:

Do you have a tape manager, like VM:Tape? Standalone it’s pretty grim, but it 
might work better if you were able to manage it via that route. The CA folks 
are used to weird tape configurations, and since they go through the DFSMSrmm 
interface to get media moved, it would seem that it would work in that you 
could get the device working via RMM as a different library name and then go 
through the process in the VM:Tape guide for mass moves to different type of 
media.

It’s more of a PITA for unlabeled tapes, but you’d have to do those by hand 
anyway. Any of those VSS thingies really really don’t like unlabeled volumes.



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