Re: z/VM Directory Location
shipped on MAINT 2CC David Original Message Subject: [IBMVM] z/VM Directory LocationFrom: Howard Rifkind vmes...@yahoo.comDate: Wed, May 06, 2009 11:56 pmTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Another Senior moment...in z/VM 5.3 which of Maint's minidisks is the directory on...I don't currently have a z/VM system to work on and forgot this...Thanks
Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
Hi, We are currently doing a trial of Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product. We were wondering if there were other users that have implemented this product. Our concern is that we run CA's Dynam/T/VM and would like VTAPE to interface with Dynam. VSSI supplies a customizable EXEC (VSSLTAPE) to allow interfacing VTAPE with other tape management products but their support group does not know how other user's of their product interface tape management software. If somebody already has a VSSLTAPE EXEC customized to interface with DYNAM/T/VM could you please share it with us? Also any GOTCHA's or advice on using the VTAPE would be appreciated. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky I'm going to move you baby! Captain, USS Titanic Legend of the USS Titanic - Jamie Brockett Systems Communications Sciences, Inc At TSG, DoIT Services Data Center State of New Hampshire (603) 271-1509
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
I have never tried anything like that, but have been using VTAPE since the early 1980s. VSSLTAPE was originally intended for use by VTBKUP and VTREST as the interface for getting real tapes mounted when backing up or restoring VTAPEs or the VTAPE Library. We have modifications for interfacing with VM:Tape, but not for Dynam/T and not for general use beyond their original purpose. If I am reading you correctly, what you are proposing goes way beyond VSSLTAPE's design and capabilities. It exists to provide an interface between specific utilities that are aware of it and call it to issue customized tape mount requests for real tapes that are managed by a tape library system. On the other hand, the tape management systems like VM:Tape and Dynam/T are not designed to handle tapes in a VTAPE library. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shiminsky, Gary Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:09 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Hi, We are currently doing a trial of Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product. We were wondering if there were other users that have implemented this product. Our concern is that we run CA's Dynam/T/VM and would like VTAPE to interface with Dynam. VSSI supplies a customizable EXEC (VSSLTAPE) to allow interfacing VTAPE with other tape management products but their support group does not know how other user's of their product interface tape management software. If somebody already has a VSSLTAPE EXEC customized to interface with DYNAM/T/VM could you please share it with us? Also any GOTCHA's or advice on using the VTAPE would be appreciated. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky I'm going to move you baby! Captain, USS Titanic Legend of the USS Titanic - Jamie Brockett Systems Communications Sciences, Inc At TSG, DoIT Services Data Center State of New Hampshire (603) 271-1509
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I actually want Dynam/T/VM to manage the real tape that would be used for backing up and restoring the VTAPE libraries. Not much more than that on the z/VM side. I figured if someone had VSSLTAPE EXEC that was already customized for Dynam/T/VM it would save us a lot of time in implementing and testing it. VTAPE would be used primarily to virtualize our tape processing in our z/VSE systems (where we have Dynam/T/VSE running). Gary Gary L. Shiminsky I'm going to move you baby! Captain, USS Titanic Legend of the USS Titanic - Jamie Brockett Systems Communications Sciences, Inc At TSG, DoIT Services Data Center State of New Hampshire (603) 271-1509 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product I have never tried anything like that, but have been using VTAPE since the early 1980s. VSSLTAPE was originally intended for use by VTBKUP and VTREST as the interface for getting real tapes mounted when backing up or restoring VTAPEs or the VTAPE Library. We have modifications for interfacing with VM:Tape, but not for Dynam/T and not for general use beyond their original purpose. If I am reading you correctly, what you are proposing goes way beyond VSSLTAPE's design and capabilities. It exists to provide an interface between specific utilities that are aware of it and call it to issue customized tape mount requests for real tapes that are managed by a tape library system. On the other hand, the tape management systems like VM:Tape and Dynam/T are not designed to handle tapes in a VTAPE library. Regards, Richard Schuh
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
Hi, Thanks for your reply. We use the other VMBACKUP product - HiDRO which does have an interface with Dynam/T/VM. HiDRO does a good job of backing up our CMS SFS material except for Byte File System (BFS) directories in SFS. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky I'm going to move you baby! Captain, USS Titanic Legend of the USS Titanic - Jamie Brockett Systems Communications Sciences, Inc At TSG, DoIT Services Data Center State of New Hampshire (603) 271-1509 -Original Message- From: Quay, Jonathan (IHG) [mailto:jonathan.q...@ihg.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:15 PM To: Shiminsky, Gary Subject: RE: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Gary, many TPF shops use VTAPE since a TPF guy wrote it and it's a companion product to VPARS. It's been so long since I used Dynam/T and B, that I can't remember it. The only gotcha about VTAPE that I can think of is that somebody somewhere has to open the library before it can be used. We code a VTOPEN OUTLIB x in whomever's profile exec. Our almost exclusive use for VTAPE is as a virtual bit bucket for tape logging (VTMOUNT xxx DUMMY). TPF insists on logging to tape. One other good use for VTAPE I can think of is for incremental backups of cms files. Our backup software (VMBACKUP) has its own internal dasd tape support, so we just use that. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shiminsky, Gary Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Hi, We are currently doing a trial of Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product. We were wondering if there were other users that have implemented this product. Our concern is that we run CA's Dynam/T/VM and would like VTAPE to interface with Dynam. VSSI supplies a customizable EXEC (VSSLTAPE) to allow interfacing VTAPE with other tape management products but their support group does not know how other user's of their product interface tape management software. If somebody already has a VSSLTAPE EXEC customized to interface with DYNAM/T/VM could you please share it with us? Also any GOTCHA's or advice on using the VTAPE would be appreciated. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky I'm going to move you baby! Captain, USS Titanic Legend of the USS Titanic - Jamie Brockett Systems Communications Sciences, Inc At TSG, DoIT Services Data Center State of New Hampshire (603) 271-1509
Re: local filepools
Kris; Doing the SCOMDIR NAMES trick worked perfectly. The only surprise was having to rename the LUNAMEs on the CRR recovery servers as well, as they are also global resources and were the same on all three nodes. I was able to rename the global filepools to be unique on each node, and didn't have to change any of the code that still referred to the old names. Once that was done, and the CRR LUNAMEs were changed, we were able to join all three nodes to the ISFC collection without error. The processes for renaming these resources are both in the z/VM Planning and Administration guide. I was able to follow them pretty well despite knowing little about SFS when starting. ok r. -Original Message- From: Kris Buelens [mailto:kris.buel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: local filepools By using an entry in the SCOMDIR NAMES file, you can assign a real, unique, filepoolid to each server, but keep the name the users are used too. E.g; :nick.oldpool :tpn.uniquepool
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