How is "Emulated Tape" different from the VTAPE product from VSSI (Virtua l Software Systems, Inc.)? That already exists -- see <http://www.vsoftsys.com/default.htm>.
Is what you are asking for better than VTAPE -- or are you just asking IB M to provide free what you can already get for a price? IBM might not want to undercut a VM vendor. We have both VPARS and VTAPE -- but only on one VM system. This was installed to support TPF testing. The z/OS guests also make use of VTAPE. I think these are expensive products -- but I really don't know what we pay for them. On Tue, 23 May 2006 09:32:07 -0500, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The one thing I didn't understand on "why we don't have emulated tape >already?", is: > >It's already available in VSE. > >Is this one of those things, that if CMSDOS was kept up to date, like >it was in VSE/SP days (i.e. library access), would we already have it? >Of course the VSE component is called Virtual Tape and that may be >somewhat different then Emulated Tape. But from my perspective, I would >take either. > >Tom Duerbusch >THD Consulting >======================== ========================= ========================
