Re: Tapeless Solutions

2012-01-02 Thread Tommy Tsui
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-24 18:43, Russell Witt pisze: Not true at all. CA-Vtape can optionally use open system storage, but it is not required. If you want to go directly from MF DASD/CACHE to tape - that is an option. Still true. I wrote about

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2012-01-02 Thread Tommy Tsui
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-24 18:43, Russell Witt pisze: Not true at all. CA-Vtape can optionally use open system storage, but it is not required. If you want to go

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-30 Thread Tommy Tsui
Manager -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 1:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Russell, Thanks for your reply. I must admit to being somewhat

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-30 Thread Jonathan Goossen
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Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-28 Thread Russell Witt
into the Title search and selecting presentation 9969. Russell -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 4:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-24 18:43, Russell Witt

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-28 Thread Russell Witt
. Russell Witt CA 1 L2 Support Manager -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 1:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Russell, Thanks for your reply. I must admit

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-28 Thread Linda Mooney
, Linda - Original Message - From: Russell Witt res09...@verizon.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:09:31 PM Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Radoslaw, Sorry, the only link is to the SHARE web-site to lookup presentations. http

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-27 Thread R.S.
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-24 10:50, Tommy Tsui pisze: It seems the only choice for enterprise tapeless solution is only vsm or 7720, anyone will consider bustech or ca-tape software solution what is pros and cons Well, I never said that. BusTech MDL is also

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-27 Thread Ron Hawkins
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Witt Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Tapeless Solutions Ron, As a backstore device, yes. As the primary cache it might be a little slow

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-24 Thread Tommy Tsui
It seems the only choice for enterprise tapeless solution is only vsm or 7720, anyone will consider bustech or ca-tape software solution what is pros and cons On 2011-12-24 上午8:52, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: W dniu 2011-12-23 20:44, Cosby, Bob - OCFO pisze: At the time of this

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-24 Thread Russell Witt
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 5:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-24 10:50, Tommy Tsui pisze: It seems the only choice for enterprise tapeless solution is only

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread Ron Hawkins
Of Russell Witt Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 4:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Tapeless Solutions While the cache is MF DASD (which gives it great performance when writing and reading from cache), CA-Vtape now has the ability to be offloaded to cheaper dasd

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread Tommy Tsui
Our shop currently use vts b20 and there is no way migrate to Vts 7720 . Any shop replace b20 vts with other tapeless solutions such emc bustech or sun storgtek vsm solution or 7720. On 2011-12-23 下午7:27, Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Russell, Do you think that CA-Vtape would

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread Russell Witt
: Tapeless Solutions Russell, Do you think that CA-Vtape would also be a good fit with large capacity SAS/SATA array groups, or virtualized midrange storage arrays presented as Mainframe volumes (3390A)? Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread Cosby, Bob - OCFO
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Our shop currently use vts b20 and there is no way migrate to Vts 7720 . Any shop replace b20 vts with other tapeless solutions such emc bustech or sun storgtek vsm solution or 7720. On 2011-12-23 下午7:27, Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-23 19:20, Cosby, Bob - OCFO pisze: We replaced 10 STK silos with a VSM/SL8500; instead of shipping 2,500 - 3,000 3490 tapes to Iron Mountain for Disaster Recovery on a daily basis we are now shipping less than 100 9840 high capacity tapes. High capacity? 9840D - 75GB (native)

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Gould
Timothy: Semi off topic but germane to your entry. LONG LONG ago (and in New Jersey) the company I worked for had opened a data center building and was going to bring in new IBM mainframe. The company had hired a bunch of experts from a company that was relocating. The people came out and

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread Cosby, Bob - OCFO
12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-23 19:20, Cosby, Bob - OCFO pisze: We replaced 10 STK silos with a VSM/SL8500; instead of shipping 2,500 - 3,000 3490 tapes to Iron Mountain for Disaster Recovery on a daily basis we are now shipping less than 100

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-23 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-23 20:44, Cosby, Bob - OCFO pisze: At the time of this tape implementation we were utilizing 3490 1.8gbs tapes and 9849C 20gbs uncompressed /40gbs compressed tapes so by definition 75gbs uncompressed I would consider that to be High capacity; At the same time you had T1 (A)

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-22 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-22 06:42, Timothy Sipples pisze: Now that I think about it, if the door to your data center isn't tall enough, IBM has a solution. Your new mainframe can be shipped topless, although that's not the exact term for it. Topless mainframe shipment is not recommended unless you really

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-22 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: I think it's typical gap between shining theory and stinking practice. ;-) G r o a n ! ! ! ;-D Lets me think of this saying: Persons never having a child have 1001 shining theories on how to raise a baby/toddler/teenager/wannabe-adult Persons with a child (one or

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-22 Thread Hal Merritt
some real tape drives for tertiary backups. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Henke, George Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Tapeless Solutions Does anyone know of an IBM completely

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-21 Thread Ward, Mike S
Heh -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-21 Thread Benik, John E
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Yes, I also read it as TOPLESS, so I smile. I hope I did not make to myself bad name, more then before. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Am I the only one who read the subject line too

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
of any vendor offering a topless solution for our tape processing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of shai hess Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Yes

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-21 Thread Bobbie Justice
You're not the only one, I did the same thing. Bobbie Jo Justice Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally substituting an o for the a and dropping the first e? I must be regressing.

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-21 Thread Ken Brick
On 22/12/2011 07:06 AM, Bobbie Justice wrote: You're not the only one, I did the same thing. Bobbie Jo Justice Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally substituting an o for the a and dropping the first e? Obviously a few salacious people on the list :-)

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
Now that I think about it, if the door to your data center isn't tall enough, IBM has a solution. Your new mainframe can be shipped topless, although that's not the exact term for it. Topless mainframe shipment is not recommended unless you really do have an unavoidably short entry door since IBM

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-20 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-19 23:52, Henke, George pisze: Offloading VTAPE to zIIP would not be so bad, no? No. (my opinion) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-20 Thread Richard Pinion
AMEN my brother! Richard and Vickie Pinion --- shai.h...@gmail.com wrote: From: shai hess shai.h...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:52:14 +0200 MFNetDisk also support tapeless solution for emulated tapes. MFNetDisk tape

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-20 Thread Steve Dover
George, Does it have to be IBM? Per Radoslaw's last post, we are using Bustech MDL 1000 with Data Domain back end storage. We are a fairly small shop, and up to 2 weeks ago we had about 5 TBs of data on tape. Most of that was Mobius View Direct archives. We just went through the Arcmover

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-20 Thread Timothy Sipples
Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally substituting an o for the a and dropping the first e? I must be regressing. Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-20 Thread shai hess
Yes, I also read it as TOPLESS, so I smile. I hope I did not make to myself bad name, more then before. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Am I the only one who read the subject line too quickly, mentally substituting an o for the a and dropping

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread Henke, George
Will CA VTAPE work on regular MF or does it need the DS8800. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 8:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Hi George

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-19 23:02, Henke, George pisze: Will CA VTAPE work on regular MF or does it need the DS8800. What??? CA VTAPE is from software being sold by CA. DS8800 is a DASD box being sold by IBM. CA VTAPE works on any mainframe DASD. I don't know what does it mean work on regular MF.

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread Jonathan Goossen
/2011 04:02:41 PM: From: Henke, George george.he...@hp.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 12/19/2011 04:13 PM Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Will CA VTAPE work on regular MF or does it need the DS8800. -Original Message

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread Henke, George
Offloading VTAPE to zIIP would not be so bad, no? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions W dniu 2011-12-19 23:02, Henke

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread Russell Witt
While the cache is MF DASD (which gives it great performance when writing and reading from cache), CA-Vtape now has the ability to be offloaded to cheaper dasd that is attached through an NFS Server (such as NetApp or Data Domain). And you even have the flexability of having the offload copy go

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-19 Thread shai hess
MFNetDisk also support tapeless solution for emulated tapes. MFNetDisk tape emulation let you select MFNetDisk tape manager soultion or CA or IBM or any other tape manager solution. MF only trasfer the data and the CCW commands to PC and by that reduce the CPU utilization in MF. The PC emulates

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 04b3da7b71b3ab408ca62ba6046bcf8f23d485b...@gvw0676exc.americas.hpqcorp.net, on 12/16/2011 at 08:35 PM, Henke, George george.he...@hp.com said: Does anyone know of an IBM completely tapeless solution Solution to what? Hot backup is a tapeless solution to off-site backup, but I have no idea

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-18 Thread Silvio Camplani
I know it's not IBM, but FYI, we converted earlier this year to a DataDomain DD510 (now EMC) data deplucation system with a Luminex gateway (tape emulation). We have 21.3 TB stored on a 3.6 tb box (actual utiization is 2.9 tb (7.4x compression/dedup). There where no JCL changes, new tapes are

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-18 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
management (CA-1)? I don't think so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 4:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Henke, George george.he

Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Henke, George
Does anyone know of an IBM completely tapeless solution and what it might cost? I have heard of the TS7740, but it holds only 6 TB per draw. We have 750 TB on tape. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Ramiro Camposagrado
Yes... It is called the TS7720. We have three of them in a Grid Configutation, I believe that each frame could accomodate up to 162 TB of storage (without compression). You should talk to your IBM rep for the exact specs. --

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Dennis Trojak
:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Tapeless Solutions Does anyone know of an IBM completely tapeless solution and what it might cost? I have heard of the TS7740, but it holds only 6 TB per draw. We have 750 TB on tape

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Henke, George george.he...@hp.com wrote in message news:04b3da7b71b3ab408ca62ba6046bcf8f23d485b...@gvw0676exc.americas.hpq corp.net... Does anyone know of an IBM completely tapeless solution and what it might cost? I have heard of the TS7740, but it holds only 6 TB per draw. We have 750 TB

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Henke, George
Does the DS8800 do tape management (CA-1)? I don't think so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 4:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Henke

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Linda Mooney
- Original Message - From: George Henke george.he...@hp.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 4:36:18 PM Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Does the DS8800 do tape management (CA-1)?  I don't think so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Minoru Massaki
the DS8800 do tape management (CA-1)? I don't think so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 4:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tapeless Solutions Henke

Re: Tapeless Solutions

2011-12-16 Thread Minoru Massaki
IBM TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z might be a candidate. It holds up to 1PB (1,000TB) data with data deduplication. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts7680/index.html Minoru Massaki (M*M) 2011/12/17 Henke, George george.he...@hp.com: Does anyone know of an IBM