Migrating to IBM VTS

A leading employee benefits company in the U.S. Northeast  currently uses StorageTek Silos, CA-1 TMS, and 3490E, 3480 media. They use DFHSM and DMS/OS to manage some of their tape data. Their new technology includes 4 IBM Virtual Tape Servers (VTS) and IBM 3590 tape drives. They are using TelTape/390 to migrate their tape datasets from the 3490E and 3480 media to VTS "virtual volumes". VTS will stack the tape volumes onto high capacity 3590 tape cartridges. 

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Certifying used 3590 tapes
What they like about TelTape/390
  • Maintain TMS integrity (creating jobname, creation date, accounting code, etc. of the migrated volumes matches the corresponding input volumes).
  • Recatalog of tape DSNs is performed at the appropriate time, i.e. after a tape is successfully copied, or for a multi-volume set, after the entire set has been successfully copied.
  • TelTape/390 identifies tapes which are managed by DFHSM and DMS/OS, and by default bypasses those tapes for copying.
  • They have special requirements for certain volume serials. They can input a list of specific volume serials to TelTape/390, and apply the selection criteria to that list of tapes.
  • Although they have a "mod" to CA-1 TMS, they are able to use TelTape/390 for migration without changes.
  • Quick install for testing without SMP/E.
  • Flexibility of Cartagena to accept enhancement requests.