Yes, and it's very cool!

Edward Jaffe wrote:
Michael Knigge wrote:
So... I ask myself how this is possible. And (for me) even more interesting, would it also be possible to do the same for a Tape?

How possible???! How is *anything* possible? Software!

Tape emulation is even easier than DASD.

FWIW, z/VSE has had this capability integrated into the operating system for a long time. They call it VTAPE. Either a local VSAM file or any file on a remote Java server (via TCP/IP) is used.

http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zvse/products/vtape.html


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