I think the reference was to a VTS unit. Is emulated tapes are called VTAPEs, I believe. Either Rick did not trademark VTAPE or he gave IBM permission to use it. (Or he is going to file suit as a result of this note :-) ).
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Coffin > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:54 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location > > VTAPE is a Virtual Software Systems, Inc. (VSSI) commercial > product and already runs on VM. It wouldn't help in this > case, because all VTAPE does is redirect TAPE I/O to a local > file, you'd still have to take that really big file and FTP > it. Now if VTAPE could redirect TAPE I/O to a remote > location "somehow" (i.e. open a TCPIP socket pointed to a > Linux server running a little VTAPE client to accept the data > and write it to a file) THAT would be sweet (and I'd bet you > there is a market for such a product.... Hint hint). :) > > -Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Huegel, Thomas > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:25 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location > > > We could BEG IBM to add native VTAPE to z/VM .. even 'lowly VSE' > supports VTAPEs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Michael Coffin > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:01 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location > > > Hi Aria, > > It's weird, sometimes it takes as little as 15 minutes to DDR2CMS a > 3390-3 spindle, but most times it takes 45-50 minutes. But > "all spindles are not created equal", so you might have one > that has very little actual data on it (even if it is fully > allocated for minidisks, those minidisks might be > substantially empty), and one that is full to the gills. > Likewise, some data compacts better than others (for example > one spindle contains a bunch of 'zip' files sent to us by PC > users, those files are already well compressed and further > compaction isn't likely). > > Again, if I can't (quickly) find a means to read the disk and > write to a TCPIP stream directly (with a collector on the > remote end, of course), I'll probably replace DDR2CMS with > PIPEDDR to create the intermediate files before transmitting them. > > -Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aria Bamdad > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:44 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location > > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:37 -0400 Michael Coffin said: > >Hi Aria, > > > >We are on an IBM 2066-0B1 with ESCON channels to an IBM > 9393, running > >with a full system load. It would probably only take about > 10 minutes > >on a big z9 (or z10) box, lightly loaded with FICON channels..... :) > > I wish!!! I am on a 2066-0B1 with ESCON channels also. The > DASD is an EMC 8430 with lots of cache however. > > Aria. >
