Re: InformationWeek survey
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Re: Location of MINIOPT in directory
Thank you. George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Munson Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Location of MINIOPT in directory George, The MINIOPT statement is an extension to the MDISK statement and must immediately follow an MDISK statement that defines a non-full-pack minidisk Bill Munson Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. 525 Washington Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07310 201-418-7588 "Shedlock, George" Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System 05/08/2009 02:23 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Location of MINIOPT in directory Is there any specific location for a MINIOPT directory statement? For example, I have the following statements in my user directory: MDISK 0B00 ... MINIOPT PAV FB00 MDISK 0B01 ... MINIOPT PAV FB01 Do I need to maintain that order of statements? Can I group all of the MDISK statements together and all of the MINIOPT statements separately? George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541 *** IMPORTANT NOTE * The opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and not necessarily those of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates BBH. There is no guarantee that this message is either private or confidential, and it may have been altered by unauthorized sources without your or our knowledge. Nothing in the message is capable or intended to create any legally binding obligations on either party and it is not intended to provide legal advice. BBH accepts no responsibility for loss or damage from its use, including damage from virus. ***
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Re: Location of MINIOPT in directory
The MINIOPT statement must immediately follow the MDISK statement it goes with. It's looked at as an extension of the MDISK statement. So yes, the order must be maintained. Yvonne Yvonne DeMeritt CA -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shedlock, George Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Location of MINIOPT in directory Is there any specific location for a MINIOPT directory statement? For example, I have the following statements in my user directory: MDISK 0B00 ... MINIOPT PAV FB00 MDISK 0B01 ... MINIOPT PAV FB01 Do I need to maintain that order of statements? Can I group all of the MDISK statements together and all of the MINIOPT statements separately? George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541
Re: Location of MINIOPT in directory
George,
The MINIOPT statement is an extension to the MDISK statement and must
immediately follow an MDISK statement that defines a non-full-pack
minidisk
Bill Munson
Sr. z/VM Systems Programmer
Brown Brothers Harriman & CO.
525 Washington Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07310
201-418-7588
"Shedlock, George"
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Location of MINIOPT in directory
Is there any specific location for a MINIOPT directory statement?
For example, I have the following statements in my user directory:
MDISK 0B00 ...
MINIOPT PAV FB00
MDISK 0B01 ...
MINIOPT PAV FB01
Do I need to maintain that order of statements? Can I group all of the
MDISK statements together and all of the MINIOPT statements separately?
George Shedlock Jr
AEGON Information Technology
AEGON USA
502-560-3541
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Location of MINIOPT in directory
Is there any specific location for a MINIOPT directory statement? For example, I have the following statements in my user directory: MDISK 0B00 ... MINIOPT PAV FB00 MDISK 0B01 ... MINIOPT PAV FB01 Do I need to maintain that order of statements? Can I group all of the MDISK statements together and all of the MINIOPT statements separately? George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
Thank you. 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: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:11 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Ah, now the mud has been washed away from my eyes. VSSLTAPE isn't the easiest to pick apart. I'll send you a sample of an updated EXEC. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shiminsky, Gary > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:01 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > I'm sorry I was not more clear on what we needed. We were not > planning to use CA's VM:Backup/HiDRO to backup VTAPE's > library volumes. > > We would like to have VTAPE's VTBKUP and VTREST commands > interface thru the VSSLTAPE EXEC to CA's Dynam/T/VM where we > manage our tapes (days retention, number of gens, offsite > vaulting and of course scratching tapes). > > The driving force behind this is we would like to retire our > 3490 tape drives because of ever increasing maintenance costs > (and eventually our 3590 tape drive) and get new tape > technology (which means much larger capacity tape cartridges > along with much larger costs). > > 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: Friday, May 08, 2009 12:34 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > Do not lose track of the fact that VSSLTAPE is an > application/TMS interface, not-VTAPE-system code/TMS. You > might be able to create a tape pool that includes the > potential volumes in your VTAPE library. That is only the > easy piece. If you look at the sample VSSLTAPE, you will see > that it is not trivial. It was designed to be used by two > very specific applications. Those applications intercept the > I/O interrupts occurring on specific real tape drives and all > OPEN and CLOSE macros and call VSSLTAPE as required, simply > to get real tapes mounted. What you are asking is the > complimentary action. You want something that monitors for > VTAPE requests and handles them for the Hidro-Dynam/T > environment. I doubt that Hidro has such exits. > > Also, do not forget about the need for logical backup of the > VTAPE library. If you use Hidro to do a physical backup while > the library is closed, you will not be able to restore a > single VTAPE, you will have to restore the entire library. > You could, of course, create a second library, restore to it, > then copy the tape in question to your real (pun > intended) VTAPE library. > > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:55 AM > > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > > > "Shiminsky, Gary" wrote: > > >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. > > > > It's been a while, but I remember that DYNAM/T wasn't that hard to > > interface with. It did have a nasty habit of losing threads > (per the > > then-DYNAM/T dev team), but hopefully that's been fixed by now. > > > > ...phsiii > > >
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
Ah, now the mud has been washed away from my eyes. VSSLTAPE isn't the easiest to pick apart. I'll send you a sample of an updated EXEC. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shiminsky, Gary > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:01 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > I'm sorry I was not more clear on what we needed. We were not > planning to use CA's VM:Backup/HiDRO to backup VTAPE's > library volumes. > > We would like to have VTAPE's VTBKUP and VTREST commands > interface thru the VSSLTAPE EXEC to CA's Dynam/T/VM where we > manage our tapes (days retention, number of gens, offsite > vaulting and of course scratching tapes). > > The driving force behind this is we would like to retire our > 3490 tape drives because of ever increasing maintenance costs > (and eventually our 3590 tape drive) and get new tape > technology (which means much larger capacity tape cartridges > along with much larger costs). > > 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: Friday, May 08, 2009 12:34 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > Do not lose track of the fact that VSSLTAPE is an > application/TMS interface, not-VTAPE-system code/TMS. You > might be able to create a tape pool that includes the > potential volumes in your VTAPE library. That is only the > easy piece. If you look at the sample VSSLTAPE, you will see > that it is not trivial. It was designed to be used by two > very specific applications. Those applications intercept the > I/O interrupts occurring on specific real tape drives and all > OPEN and CLOSE macros and call VSSLTAPE as required, simply > to get real tapes mounted. What you are asking is the > complimentary action. You want something that monitors for > VTAPE requests and handles them for the Hidro-Dynam/T > environment. I doubt that Hidro has such exits. > > Also, do not forget about the need for logical backup of the > VTAPE library. If you use Hidro to do a physical backup while > the library is closed, you will not be able to restore a > single VTAPE, you will have to restore the entire library. > You could, of course, create a second library, restore to it, > then copy the tape in question to your real (pun > intended) VTAPE library. > > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:55 AM > > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > > > "Shiminsky, Gary" wrote: > > >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. > > > > It's been a while, but I remember that DYNAM/T wasn't that hard to > > interface with. It did have a nasty habit of losing threads > (per the > > then-DYNAM/T dev team), but hopefully that's been fixed by now. > > > > ...phsiii > > >
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
I'm sorry I was not more clear on what we needed. We were not planning to use CA's VM:Backup/HiDRO to backup VTAPE's library volumes. We would like to have VTAPE's VTBKUP and VTREST commands interface thru the VSSLTAPE EXEC to CA's Dynam/T/VM where we manage our tapes (days retention, number of gens, offsite vaulting and of course scratching tapes). The driving force behind this is we would like to retire our 3490 tape drives because of ever increasing maintenance costs (and eventually our 3590 tape drive) and get new tape technology (which means much larger capacity tape cartridges along with much larger costs). 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: Friday, May 08, 2009 12:34 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Do not lose track of the fact that VSSLTAPE is an application/TMS interface, not-VTAPE-system code/TMS. You might be able to create a tape pool that includes the potential volumes in your VTAPE library. That is only the easy piece. If you look at the sample VSSLTAPE, you will see that it is not trivial. It was designed to be used by two very specific applications. Those applications intercept the I/O interrupts occurring on specific real tape drives and all OPEN and CLOSE macros and call VSSLTAPE as required, simply to get real tapes mounted. What you are asking is the complimentary action. You want something that monitors for VTAPE requests and handles them for the Hidro-Dynam/T environment. I doubt that Hidro has such exits. Also, do not forget about the need for logical backup of the VTAPE library. If you use Hidro to do a physical backup while the library is closed, you will not be able to restore a single VTAPE, you will have to restore the entire library. You could, of course, create a second library, restore to it, then copy the tape in question to your real (pun intended) VTAPE library. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:55 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > "Shiminsky, Gary" wrote: > >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. > > It's been a while, but I remember that DYNAM/T wasn't that > hard to interface with. It did have a nasty habit of losing > threads (per the then-DYNAM/T dev team), but hopefully that's > been fixed by now. > > ...phsiii >
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
Do not lose track of the fact that VSSLTAPE is an application/TMS interface, not-VTAPE-system code/TMS. You might be able to create a tape pool that includes the potential volumes in your VTAPE library. That is only the easy piece. If you look at the sample VSSLTAPE, you will see that it is not trivial. It was designed to be used by two very specific applications. Those applications intercept the I/O interrupts occurring on specific real tape drives and all OPEN and CLOSE macros and call VSSLTAPE as required, simply to get real tapes mounted. What you are asking is the complimentary action. You want something that monitors for VTAPE requests and handles them for the Hidro-Dynam/T environment. I doubt that Hidro has such exits. Also, do not forget about the need for logical backup of the VTAPE library. If you use Hidro to do a physical backup while the library is closed, you will not be able to restore a single VTAPE, you will have to restore the entire library. You could, of course, create a second library, restore to it, then copy the tape in question to your real (pun intended) VTAPE library. Regards, Richard Schuh > -Original Message- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:55 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product > > "Shiminsky, Gary" wrote: > >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. > > It's been a while, but I remember that DYNAM/T wasn't that > hard to interface with. It did have a nasty habit of losing > threads (per the then-DYNAM/T dev team), but hopefully that's > been fixed by now. > > ...phsiii >
Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product
"Shiminsky, Gary" wrote: >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. It's been a while, but I remember that DYNAM/T wasn't that hard to interface with. It did have a nasty habit of losing threads (per the then-DYNAM/T dev team), but hopefully that's been fixed by now. ...phsiii
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