I have been reviewing entries in both lists and it appears that VM and VSE
neither have a easy way of move virtual tape volumes from the VTS to and
external tape media for offsite storage. I have been told that MVS has a
facility (copy extract) to do this. For VSE I guess we could use Ditto tape
On 6/3/09 1:13 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote:
Once you get a VSE system up (via tape), you have VSE Virtual Tape available.
You can use that with the IP flavor (instead of the VSAM flavor) to store VSE
Virtual Tapes. Now, you can get a TB USB drive for around $1,500 and
this in more detail.
Hans
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Subject: Re: IBM VTS in a VM/VSE environment.
It can be a problem. Most smaller shops
