Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Williamson
Our DCC product gives you the ability to query the DLM. Tso, batch, pc GUI, ispf interface. It can clone tapes into the dlm. Also can direct allocation so smstape does not need to be used. Www.dtssoftware.com Tom -- For

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-08 Thread Darth Keller
So it's been a really long time since I set all this up, but I do remember I had to have a couple of special volumes defined in the library. These volumes were used to 'communicate' with the Bustech hardware. Below is the display for the 2 volumes from ISMF. VOLUME USE

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-08 Thread Darth Keller
These are also not defined to my TMM (CA1). So it's been a really long time since I set all this up, but I do remember I had to have a couple of special volumes defined in the library. These volumes were used to 'communicate' with the Bustech hardware. Below is the display for the 2

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 7 May 2013 19:15:55 -0500, Mike Wojtukiewicz mw...@attglobal.net wrote: I dont know why the client chose 2 different tape sizes. Seems illogical to me. The NL tapes I referenced had to do with running DLMCMD JCL which for the life of me I don't get. All I want to do is ask the machine

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-07 Thread Darth Keller
Thanks, Mark - not an issue I had considered either but one I will definitely keep in mind. However, as we don't share the box, it's probably pretty unlikely we'll run into the issue. ddk On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:34:23 -0500, Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.com wrote: Question - why do

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-07 Thread Mark Zelden
It isn't really about sharing, it's really a matter of not choosing to use a large virtual tape size in a very small environment. If the total backing file systems are only 500GB - 1TB, you really don't want your virtual tape size to be 50GB. I went back and re-read the original post and it

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-07 Thread Mike Wojtukiewicz
The client I work for got this thing for nothing so therefore since they're NOT a paying customer no userid/password. Nice huh? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-06 Thread Mike Wojtukiewicz
Does anyone out there have ANY experience with the EMC DLm6000 virtual tape server. I am working for a MAJOR software developer who got one of these for free. They provided almost NO documentation. What little doc I have only peripherally talks about SMS routines, RMM, and how to run

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-06 Thread Bob Shannon
The manuals can be downloaded. EMC should have provided someone in your organization with an Id and password to their website. If they didn't just ask your EMC contact. Bob Shannon Rocket Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-06 Thread Darth Keller
Do you have any experience with virtual tapes? We went from a couple of IBM B20 libraries to an HDS MDL which uses the Bustech (now EMC) to front-end HDS storage. We had to switch from SMS Automated Tape Libraries to a Manual Tape Library. We defined new tape ranges, dataclas, and

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:34:23 -0500, Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.com wrote: Question - why do you need 2 sizes of tape? Seems like unnecessary complication to me. We defined it with very large virtual tape as, unlike the B20's, there is no space (or very little space) required for the