He's not the first, nor the second. :-) I've been invovled in a few VTS to VSM conversions (including my current employer). However, the physical tape was 3490E (not the VSM back end - host drives). The back end for VSM was 9840A or 9840B (curently we use 9840C and 9940B for DR duplexing with our VSM boxes).
These days HSC/VTCS/SMC can use SMS rules so coding TAPEREQ statements are not a requirement (although that's what I've always done because the STK software didn't used to support the SMS rules). TAPEREQs are probably more flexible also. Also, you can put 3590s in a STK SILO if desired. I think there was a recent thread about this on IBM-MAIN. At any rate, I don't know of any specific papers, but perhaps STK has something they could give you. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:00:49 -0400, Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As TED stated: You may be the first...... > >You may want to document and shared later.... > >I would think the TMC would be a concern of you are change 3950 tape sizes, >CA-1 COPYCAT should help > > > >We are in the process of converting from an IBM tape environment to an STK >tape. I know with IBM the libraries etc are setup in SMS and a lot of the >library functions can be handled through SMS. Even though we will not be >the ones responsible for the changes we would like to get a good >understanding of what exactly has to take place to change environments like >this. Are there any papers/presentations that somebody may have done on >this? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
