I will also consider the MDL from BusTech. Linux appliance, and with ( far more ) installations, and supports also FICON 4. It goes from 1 ESCON Channel to 12 FICONS, and you can also attach any open system storage. Moreover, it replaces a VTS, VSM, 3494, without a piece of software in the mainframe side....
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von David Boyes Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. September 2008 03:07 An: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Betreff: Re: VTAPE from Virtual Software Systems VTAPE is a super product, but also consider a Flex-CUB (essentially a channel attached PC that can present itself as tape drives or slower disk volumes. You can attach a variety of lower-cost disk storage to the Flex-CUB, and mirror that, or use a variety of techniques to get that to higher-density offline storage. The Flex-CUB boxen also do emulation of 3xxx tape drives on selected SCSI drives, which is mighty handy in a lot of cases.
