I think you should also look at IBM's Optim Data Growth Solution for z/OS. Current product number is 5655-V01. There's a general marketing brochure here (watch the wrap):
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/data/sw-library/data-management/optim/solutionsheets/data_growth.pdf There's a white paper available here: http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-library/en_US/detail/U722716F45169N44.html The main product page is here: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/data-management/optim/core/data-growth-solution-zos/ Besides BMC as mentioned, there are some other vendors that may offer a solution: Informatica (via one of its Applimation products I suspect), Solix, Sun (StorageTek Lifecycle Director), and Hewlett-Packard (OuterBay), among others, in no particular order. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html