Radoslaw, What's wrong with it? Yes, they're 10 years old. They're also still working just fine and IBM just gave me 4 months until they stop supporting them. That's not a lot of time to get off them - especially with the holiday season and year end freezes. Usually IBM gives more than a 4 month notification of hardware going EOS. Yeah, I can get newer drives and media, but ordering, procuring, installing and testing, and migrating doesn't happen overnight. Not to mention trying to find the money when IBM didn't give me enough warning to budget for replacement hardware and media.
Regarding the support contract - the announcement letter says the support contract definitely changes as of 2/28. I don't have the verbiage in front of me but basically IBM is saying "we'll support them if we can find parts". Regarding the third party service company, how does that work with the TS3584 and TS1140 transports being the back end storage off my TS7760T VTS? The tape library and transports are in essence an extension of my VTS. Will I have an issue with finger pointing when part of my VTS solution is supported by IBM and part of it by a third party? I don't know the answer to that. As far as "very few VTS solutions with real tape drives", well we're one of them. And now we're scrambling to figure out how to upgrade the library and how to pay for it. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: TS1140 tape transports W dniu 26.10.2021 o 22:54, Pommier, Rex pisze: > Hi list, > > Was I the only one caught flat-footed with the IBM announcement today that in > just over 4 months (2/28/2022), they're dropping support on TS1140 tape > transports? Was there an earlier announcement that this was coming and I > just missed it or was this the first notification? What's wrong with that? TS1140 is ~10 years old. There are TS1150, TS1155 and TS1160. As far as I know. any existing support contract will not be affected by the EOS announcement. Just no new support contracts for dates after 2022-02-28. And of course no drive will stop functioning just because of the announcement. Last, but not least, third party service companies will still support it as well as older equipment. The only interesting thing I see here - it is the last native tape drive supported by z/OS. I feel like with 3390 - no more drives, just disk arrays and emulation. And, to complement - there are very few virtual tape solutions with real tapes on backend. And very few tape manufacturers. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
