Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-08 Thread Phil Smith III
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

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
: 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

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-08 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
/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

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-08 Thread Schuh, Richard
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

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-08 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
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

Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-07 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
Hi, We are currently doing a trial of Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product. We were wondering if there were other users that have implemented this product. Our concern is that we run CA's Dynam/T/VM and would like VTAPE to interface with Dynam. VSSI supplies a customizable EXEC

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Shiminsky, Gary Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:09 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Hi, We are currently doing a trial of Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-07 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product I have never tried anything like that, but have been using VTAPE since the early 1980s. VSSLTAPE was originally intended for use by VTBKUP and VTREST as the interface for getting real tapes mounted when backing up or restoring VTAPEs or the VTAPE Library. We

Re: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product

2009-05-07 Thread Shiminsky, Gary
, Gary Subject: RE: Virtual Software Systems Inc. VTAPE product Gary, many TPF shops use VTAPE since a TPF guy wrote it and it's a companion product to VPARS. It's been so long since I used Dynam/T and B, that I can't remember it. The only gotcha about VTAPE that I can think of is that somebody