I'm not really sure if software delivery on physical tape is a benefit or not. Personally I don't think so, but I also don't think it costs IBM anything to provide it if someone (anyone) might need it. What would be kind of cool is if they could provide it in some standard virtual tape format.
Brian On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:23:46 -0500, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote: >> On Apr 24, 2018, at 12:58 AM, Brian Westerman >> <brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: >> >> OAM is pretty fast for SMS managed tape. For example, we have a client that >> uses literally thousands of really small tapes per day (it's a long sordid >> story as to why) with 512 virtual tape transports and an average of 156 in >> constant use, averaging 3 to 5 mounts per second, there is less than .25 >> second (wall clock) delay between the request for a tape and the mount being >> satisfied. > > >Brian, > >Interesting comment thanks, >This goes against what IBM seems to think as to what is happening out in the >real world. This show why IBM must continue to support tape as a software >delivery option. >I know your system might be extreme but it does show there is still a demand >for software delivery, in tape format. >Ed > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
