Re: VTS question

Hi Rex Contact me offline to discuss the Visara VI5990 VTL. It will certainly fit the bill for what you are trying to do Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com

Gtf trace

Does anyone know the format of the parm to set the number of bytes recorded to 64? Thanks Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com

Re: RIsks of sharing FICON adapters between LPARs on the same host

The risk is not with the ficon channels as the way CCW’s are sequenced it would be virtually impossible for info to bleed across lpar’s. Since Dasd is now virtual in all systems (IBM, EMC, Visara ,Hitachi) there is a greater chance of the shared file system causing data to be “misplaced”. Even

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

Hi Contact me off line and we can discuss. We do have thin client solutions that would work for you. Depending on your environment you may want to rethink switching to the OSA-ICC if security concerns are near the top of your list. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara

Re: HS student with question about small mainframe DASD

Visara also makes a rack mount replacement dasd for Ds6800 and ds8000 Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com On Apr 15, 2022, at 6:03 PM, Enzo D'Amato wrote:

Re: Windows FTPS client

We use winscp for all ftp and sftp access Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com On Jul 29, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Ron Wells

Re: Using Windows HIS to replace a mainframe Enterprise Extender node

Hi Visara is around and doing well. Product offerings for storage are VTL and DASD. The CCA 3074 provides console consolidation and automation. Email me off line to discuss your needs Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235

Re: Anyone have SFTP JCL to share?

Sorry all: Was not meant for the list...fingers to fast Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Bloom

Re: Anyone have SFTP JCL to share?

Looks like you are going to get 2 DASD updates instead of one. The bleeds look like they are all fixed, however, Don indicated that while we are not losing dibs anymore, we are getting close to using all of them with 16CU's defined and running 4 channels and all of the drives getting pounded

Re: Is there a vertical split in ISPF?

Only 1 coax cable to a 3290. It was a DFT device (distributed function terminal). They were more of an SNA device and not sure they functioned as non-sna from what I remember Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235

Re: RES: Tape solutions for mainframe

That’s not true! EMC purchased BUSTECH and killed their product. DLm is an internal EMC development and had nothing to do with the BUSTECH products. Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com

Re: RES: OSA Express 7S 1000 base T as console

There are external solutions that provide greater flexibility and security. OSA is limited to a single listening port for all access. There are solutions that allow your users to access via a single IP address but multiple ports that can be dedicated to specific LPAR’s. Additionally, the

Re: RMM/OAM/SMS

1:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMM/OAM/SMS Best guess would be the SMS ACS routines. That would be first place I would look. Jerry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Bloom Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: RMM/OAM/SMS

is safe. Best guess would be the SMS ACS routines. That would be first place I would look. Jerry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Bloom Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: RMM/OAM/SMS This message was sent

RMM/OAM/SMS

Need some advice here . When trying to mount a scratch tape on a manual library, the LOAD DISPLAY command comes down the channel as a M (Storage Group name) rather than MSCRTCH. Any ideas as to what is configured incorrectly in OAM or SMS? Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a

Re: DFDSS copydump

talog or RMM equivalent. On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:15 AM Ken Bloom wrote: Mike Is there anyway to query the drive and retrieve the tape media type and block size? Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com https://linkprotect.cud

Re: DFDSS copydump

Mike Is there anyway to query the drive and retrieve the tape media type and block size? Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Storage & tape question

Improvements in technology do not mean that you should abandon good operational sense! You should always do backups. Using raid arrays to improve performance and uptime has nothing to do with prudent operational procedures. Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara

Re: Storage & tape question

International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jul 7, 2020, at 7:08 PM, Grant Taylor > <023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On 7/7/20 4:40 PM, Ken Bloom wrote: >> Side note, if you want to be proactive And replace drives preventatively, &

Re: [External] Re: Storage & tape question

We have never seen that. We always use raid 6 for both our VTL AND DASD products with multiple hot spares. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jul 7, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Grant Taylor >

Re: Storage & tape question

Mike It depends on the size of the Arrays and the type of SSD’s being used. Enterprise level SSD’s Are mixed read / Write with at least 3DRPD (disk writes per day) performance should last at least 5 years or more. We have not seen other than sporadic failures in both HDD AND SSD and

Re: Storage & tape question

A very good point. In all of our storage products that we produce (dasd and vtl) we use Raid 6 which can tolerate 2 drive failures and always have at least 1 hot spare that is inserted into the array automatically. Additionally, our online diagnostics send out an alert email indicating a

Re: DASD migration -- Re: Hitachi RAID box going out of support

Hi. If you are interested in upgrading your dasd, you may want to consider the visara VI-8810. It’s rack mounted, SSD drives, compatible with all IBM OS and processors. Will certainly work with your Z9 Contact me offline and you can tell me what you require in terms of channels and

Re: 3270 terminals: CUT vs. DFT

Hi Alex I’m familiar with SNA DFT and in a previous life released several products that utilized it. I’ll look back at some old docs I have to see if there is anything worth while sending you. As I said we did 2 products. One was called the “Port-Xpander” and basically looked like a DFT

Re: 3592-E07

Hi Dean For what you are looking for the Visara VI-5990 would fit the bill. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jan 26, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Russell Witt > <025adb32e6d7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: 3592-E07

Hi Dean VTS solutions are not as expensive as you think they are depending on the amount of storage and number of channels required. Besides the vastly improved performance of a VTS over std tape, you get the additional reduction in footprint and power requirements which have the secondary

Re: CBTTAPE - Any Automation tool for console message trap

Hi jake What are you trying to do? There are products out there that can “screen scrape” consoles and send alerts based on content. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jan 13, 2020, at 11:50 PM,

Re: Alternative for VTL ?

Yes. The Visara VI-5990. Contact me off line for more info. Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Oct 15, 2019, at 2:04 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > > Hi Group > > I am looking for alternative

Re: how can we do it?

Tony We have a console automation product that will do that as well as send an email alert if the message stays in answered for a period of time. Call me Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jul 3, 2019,

Re: Hybrid SMS Storage Group - Database

That’s not completely true. Current Enterprise level SSD's have stacked "reserve cells" that are mapped in as a cell degrades. This take place on the drive itself. Modern Hardware Raid controllers are constantly monitoring array and individual drive degradation and notify of an issue. The

Moving ECKD to FCP

question. Need to move ECKD Linux to FCP. is there a simple way to copy the volumes or do we need to reinstall as FCP? Currently running as a VM. Guest. Thanks Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com

Re: In-rack FICON DASD

Check out the Visara vi-8810 DASD, 2U high, SSD dasd. I can give you more info offline. Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Christian Svensson >

Re: z/OS 1.12 question

I ran this by someone who really knows what he is doing concerning upgrades and here is what he recommended: > He can't run 1.12 on the new z14s, and he doesn't want to even think about > all the patching for 1.13 or 2.1. His best bet is to go to 2.2 on his z10, > then put the z14s patches on

Re: Question about Luminex VTS solutions

I suggest you also take a look at the Visara VI-5990L virtual tape library. > On Sep 7, 2018, at 3:00 PM, Pew, Curtis G > wrote: > >> On Sep 7, 2018, at 1:53 PM, Todd Burrell wrote: >> >> Does anyone have any experience with Luminex virtual tape solutions? We saw >> a presentation today

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

You make some good points. Here are a few more things to consider. Most vendors use .AWS format so there is compatibility at that level and that’s useful. We have conversion utilities that allow us to replace another vendors VTL with the 5990. As a wise person once said "indecision is the

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

Yes, that was a typo. We allow 3490 or 3590, but as I said, most define as 3490 and we have only had 1 customer do 3590. The 3590 customer is international and he does stack data sets on each tape. We are backing up over 1000 tapes per night at that site. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

May 20, 2018, at 7:37 AM, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: > > Ken, > > So, how would you define volumes used by HSM so that they 'fill up' at some > point and new volumes are used? > > Tony Thigpen > > Ken Bloom wrote on 05/20/2018 01:43 AM: >>

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

gt; How do you address this issue? > > Regards > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > > W dniu 2018-05-18 o 20:05, Ken Bloom pisze: >> Hi Russell >> >> We don't limit the size of the VTL volume so size doesn't ente

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

Dave Completely agree! Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On May 19, 2018, at 1:18 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > Why is it a pain to write "lots" of virtual tapes. I turned all stacking

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

Hi Russell We don't limit the size of the VTL volume so size doesn't enter into it. Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On May 18, 2018, at 2:03 PM, Russell Witt wrote: > >

Re: VTL as 3490 vs 3590

Hi Tony Most of the time we define the drives on the Visara 5990A/L as 3490 and only define them as 3590 if the customer has a "desire" to define 3490. Bottom line is that it will not make a difference. Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International

Re: Listserv for Storage Questions

What kind of questions do you have? I'm sure they can be answered here Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Mar 15, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Reno Puntillo wrote: > > Is there an

Channel trace output

I have forgotten how to direct the output of a z/OS channel trace to a file. Can someone refresh my mind? Thanks Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com

Re: Tape to tape copy jcl

Which VTL are you using? Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Feb 28, 2018, at 5:19 AM, venkat kulkarni > wrote: > > Hello Group, > > We are in the process of migrating