On Friday, 12/29/2006 at 06:16 GMT, Crispin Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions on ways we could have a tape drive 3490 in a remote location > attached to our mainframe. We are talking about 1 thousand of miles. Speed is > not important
Speed is *always* important. :-) There are companies who make FICON and ESCON "channel extenders" who encapsulate and encrypt channel data on a WAN to a remote location. If you don't have guaranteed WAN bandwidth between sites, you may end up with a problem. Certification of drives attached via a channel extender is typically the responsibility of the channel extender vendor, not the drive vendor. For IBM drives, you *may* need an RPQ to obtain IBM support for drives so attached. Check with your business partner or IBM Storage specialist; the extender vendor should be able to provide guidance to you as well. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
