Carlos, As others have indicated, CA has a product called CopyCat. In your case, it would be CA-Dynam/TLMS/CopyCat. You should check your software license, as you may already have a license for it (which would make things much easier). It has an option of retaining the original creation information (cdate, cjob, etc..) plus retaining the original expiration date/retention schedule and allows for an option to expire the input in xx days (or leave it alone) and of course re-catalog it to the new device type. You have an option also of stacking the files together (using a lot few physical cartridges) or keeping them 1-file to 1-tape (your option).
Contact your local CA account manager to check to see if you already have a license, or maybe ask for a trial of the product (to allow you to copy these files). Russell Witt CA-Dynam/TLMS Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carlos Bodra Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 7:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Moving data from old cartridges (3490) to new ones (3590) Hi, My question is simple, but since I don´t know in detail how it works I will describe it here to get some hints and tips: We have about 4000 cartridges of 3490 with historic and legal data. They have different expiration dates. Now we are moving data from 3490 to 3590 cartridges in one to one bases, but a problem arrised: How to keep TLMS updated with old expiration dates in new cartridges. In other words, we need to keep information in TLMS that a file that actually resides in 3490 and will be scratched in 3 years 04 months and 14 days in new cartridge 3590. There is any automatic form to do this or we need to input date one to one from TLMS report to associate new volser to these data? Thanks for your help ___________________________________________________ Carlos Bodra São Paulo - SP - Brazil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
