On Wednesday, 01/02/2008 at 10:22 EST, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And because of the pricing of z/OS cycles, some managers are beginning > to forget their blue tattoos and switch to brand X backup/restore > products when they see that the zlinux TSM is still not as fully > featured as MAINFRAME software should be.
If Brand X is the best solution for you, then I say go for it. I certainly wouldn't hold my breath waiting for TSM on Linux to support ESCON/FICON tapes. > Tape management and shared drives have been such a basic feature of our > systems, why should distributed systems be so behind in their resource > management capabilities. I'm not so sure distributed systems are "behind". I was under the impression that Linux TSM will work with enterprise tape libraries and drives just fine. It just won't use ESCON or FICON channels to do it. Solutions like IBM Integrated Removable Media Manager ( http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/solutions/irmm/), an IEEE 1244 standard-based librarian, media changer and management application that can help with the management of Open and mainframe tapes. IRMM specifically works with TSM on mainframe Linux and integrates with DFSMSrmm on z/OS to perform mounting of open tapes on the open drives. Your z/OS TMS still handles z/OS mount requests. [There. I've exhausted my too-limited knowledge of IRMM.] Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
