Re: Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX
... 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 drives. What new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX. z/OS version of TSM has no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other unique Unix thing. == Well, you've pretty much covered it. On non_Mainframe TSM, you have to define the library, drives, and paths, and check in tapes. After that, TSM pretty much handles all the tape activity automatically.Exactly how it works will depend on what type of library you have - what is it? And are you sharing it with any other application, or is it dedicated to TSM? I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages. How would I set up something similar in AIX? ==it depends. There are about 47 different ways to do it, depending on your environment. - TSM supports SNMP traps, that is, TSM on AIX will send messages as SNMP traps to any SNMP receiver you designate. If you are using Mainframe Netview to generate your highligthted console messages, I believe there is a NetView thingy that will let it receive traps from a non-mainframe source, but I've never done it (or seen it done). -You can also write your own exit and have TSM messages forwarded anywhere you want. -There is a TSM function called the Operational Reporter that is the simplest way to set up daily TSM monitoring. Read about it under the monitoring your server section in the Administrator's Guide. Even though y ou have an AIX server, you set up OR on a Windows box. Can be any Windows server in your environment, or your desktop, for that matter. It is a harmless Windows ap with no hooks into TSM. It scans the TSM log every day, can generate a report of errors missed backups via Email or as an HTML report plopped on any place that is convenient for you to browse to. That is the simplest way I've found to do your daily server monitoring, and it's free.. -Some peopl also write perl and/or .ksh scripts to sent them mail about TSM events. -There are 3rd party products you can buy to do your TSM monitoring, at various levels from free (TSM OR, above) to expensive, and everywhere in between. If there is a particular function you are looking for, I might be able to give you a more specific answer.
Re: Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX
-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 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 drives. What new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX. z/OS version of TSM has no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other unique Unix thing. My site migrated its TSM server from z/OS to zSeries Linux a couple of years ago. The technical issues involved in such a migration are nearly the same as for a z/OS to AIX migration. You will need to learn new options for the 'DEFINE LIBRARY' command. The AIX version requires you to specify, or accept defaults for, informaton about the library's internal operations that would be somebody else's problem in a z/OS environment. You will need to learn the 'DEFINE DRIVE' command and 'DEFINE PATH' commands. You will need to learn the 'LABEL LIBVOLUME' command. You will need to learn the 'CHECKIN LIBVOLUME' and 'CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME' commands. If you use DRM, you will need to understand how and when it performs checkout operations automatically. You will need to learn the 'QUERY LIBRARY', 'QUERY DRIVE', 'QUERY PATH', and 'QUERY LIBVOLUME' commands, and possibly the corresponding SQL tables. I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages. How would I set up something similar in AIX? Is there a joblog for the TSM process similar to the z/OS STC message log? We wrote a Perl script to replace the z/OS automation facilies. It opens a pipe to a 'dsmadmc' process with the '-console' option. This enables the script to read all the messages the TSM server writes to its console and take appropriate action as needed. We have since acquired TSMManager, a non-IBM product that provides for automated monitoring of TSM operations and for manual management of one or more TSM servers. It provides a better designed and less resource hungry GUI than IBM's Administration Center. We are in the process of migrating most of the monitoring functions of the Perl script to TSMManager. There is a Unix-oriented version of NetView available, and a variety of competing products with more or less similar functionality. I have never worked with any of these, but the impression I get from their documentation is that installing and configuring any of them is too big an effort to be justified by TSM automation alone. Is there a white paper for someone making a similar transition? With z/OS a lot of things are taken for granted or are handle byother products.
Re: Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX
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. The courier would take hours to find the tapes to bring back based on volser order, since they all came from one pile of tapes in the 3494 ATL. I talked the TSMManager person into adding these features to his product. Full vault slot management. Even had him add an onsite vault management process so that when tapes were kick out of the 3494 or LTO libraries but not sent offsite, we could track them as well. So now, the courier can just pull tape from Slots 1, 17, 25, 89. I recommend you get the free-trial of TSMManager (http://www.tsmmanager.com)and play with it. No, I do not work for them. Just a satisfied customer and beta tester and constant new feature asker! Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Technology Services University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 804-828-4807 Gee, Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 06/14/2007 12:46 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX 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 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 drives. What new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX. z/OS version of TSM has no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other unique Unix thing. I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages. How would I set up something similar in AIX? Is there a joblog for the TSM process similar to the z/OS STC message log? Is there a white paper for someone making a similar transition? With z/OS a lot of things are taken for granted or are handle by other products.
Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX
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 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 drives. What new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX. z/OS version of TSM has no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other unique Unix thing. I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages. How would I set up something similar in AIX? Is there a joblog for the TSM process similar to the z/OS STC message log? Is there a white paper for someone making a similar transition? With z/OS a lot of things are taken for granted or are handle by other products.
