I assume the companies without tapes do off-site replication of their disk 
arrays for disaster recovery and on-line (error) recovery? We would like to do 
that. But 3952 tape and storage fees cost less than the duplicated disk array 
plus telecommunications fees would. 


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:57 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups
> 
> No mainframe shop that I know of in Finland has had tape drives for
> some years.  I thought they went the way of card readers and paper tape
> already.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> On Behalf Of Steve Conway
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:48 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups
> 
> Why is that curious?
> 
> Steven F. Conway, CISSP
> LA Systems
> z/OS Systems Support
> Phone: 703.295.1926
> steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov
> 
> 
> 
> From:   Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com>
> To:     IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Date:   11/19/2012 09:44 AM
> Subject:        Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups
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> 
> People still use tapes?  Oh.  That's curious.
> 
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