On Wednesday, 01/02/2008 at 10:44 EST, Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I am not using FICON attached tape. I use an ESCON attached 3590 > that is in reality a SCSI drive but connected to a ESCON attached > controller.
Whether ESCON or FICON, it doesn't matter. IBM likes to invent new names for new technologies. It's still just a cable that runs from a port on a channel card to a device or switch. (Just like old parallel channels!) The commands that can be issued to a channel-attached device are the same, *without regard* to the physical connectivity of the device, so there is no way for TSM to issue SCSI commands on a FICON or ESCON channel. Further, TSM would have to change to integrate tape management with mainframe tape management systems. That is, it would need to use something like the new eRMM APIs that can talk to z/OS tape managers. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
