We do this. But not with a 3494. We have a 3584. A fraken-monster! It is
truly "bleeding edge" and we have the scars to prove it. In our shop,
this thing has four "parts". There is a VTS for the z/OS system, FICON
connected. There is a VTL (Virtual Tape Library) for the distributed
systems, Fibre C
To throw another wrinkle into this
The IBM VTS is supported by zSeries as well, as Win/NT, Win/2000, AIX,
Sun Solaris, HP-UX. I'm printing off the manuals now to see if the
unit will support these environments, shared, at the same time. That
would be a great solution.
AND
There are new VT
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Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch
Sent: August 29, 2006 12:36
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Subject: Re: Sharing an IBM 3494 with the LAN side
Because my understanding, is that our FICON channel cables go from the
z/890 to the IBM VTS. The VTS then has a connection to the IBM 3494.
Do we have ficon channels
> If we buy another tape controller for the 3494 with FCP attachment and
> we would have to buy additional tape drives (as the drives are
dedicated
> to a controller), could we share the robotic 3494? I don't think we
can
> share the VTS, but that's ok.
> Is that doable? Has anyone tried and suce
half Of Tom Duerbusch
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 02:15 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Sharing an IBM 3494 with the LAN side
We have been looking at an IBM VTS with the IBM 3494 robotics unit as
a
backup solution for the mainframe side (z/VM 5.1, VSE/ESA 2.7, VSE/ESA
2.3, zLinux (Suse
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Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 02:15 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Sharing an IBM 3494 with the LAN side
We have been looking at an IBM VTS with the IBM 3494 robotics unit as a
backup solution for the mainframe side (z/VM 5.1, VSE/ESA 2.7, VSE/ESA
2.3,
We have been looking at an IBM VTS with the IBM 3494 robotics unit as a
backup solution for the mainframe side (z/VM 5.1, VSE/ESA 2.7, VSE/ESA
2.3, zLinux (Suse 9)).
Just been having a hard time comming up with the money to pay for it.
The network side, is now, also asking for a robotic unit. Th
