> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 4:38 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Disk replacing Tape? > > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 16:20 -0700, Ed Gould wrote: > > Over the last few years I have seen more and more articles stating > companies are replacing tape drives with disk drives. > > > > I realize that most of the talk is from small computer users. However I > > am seeing and hearing stories that the movement has started with > > mainframes. I was wondering if anyone on here is seeing that trend or > > staying the same (or increasing). Now I know tape capacity is going > > through the roof and that might be the reason why some people are > > saying disk is replacing tape. Disk space is really becoming cheaper > > so its not impossible that this might be happening. > > > > >From my (admittedly dated) perspective, until the ability to share > > disk drives (transparently) I do not see the use of tape really > > decreasing all that much. I would like to hear from the list what > > their thoughts are about disk replacing tapes on the mainframe > > happening. Soon/not in the next 20 years/never. > > > > Ed > > I often wonder how these non-tape users address things like 10 year > archival copies of programs, data, and reports. Which we need for legal > reasons.
DFHSM with SMS MGMTCLAS controlled retention. We also have Control-D for report management and CA-Endevor for source management. > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
