Re: Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX

2007-06-15 Thread Prather, Wanda
... On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe products. TSM on z/OS has no knowledge about the tape library on z/OS other than the number of drives and the device types. SMS rules decides on the tape media is correct and the system assign the tape

Re: Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Denier
-Norman Gee wrote: - With TSM on the mainframe, I have access to console message automation and tape media management with CA-1 or RMM. I understand that with AIX, I will no longer have these functions provided for me. On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe products. TSM

Re: Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX

2007-06-14 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I did the same thing. Our main TSM server was ADSM on MVS/zOS and we migrated to AIX/Linux. I too had issues with the lack of tape management features like offsite tape vault/slot management, especially since we have 5-servers sending tapes offsite into different areas of the same physical vault.

Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX

2007-06-13 Thread Gee, Norman
With TSM on the mainframe, I have access to console message automation and tape media management with CA-1 or RMM. I understand that with AIX, I will no longer have these functions provided for me. On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe products. TSM on z/OS has no knowledge