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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:35:10 EDT
- Reply-To: Arthur Gutowski <agutows@WAYNEST1>
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- From: Arthur Gutowski <AGUTOWS@WAYNEST1.BITNET>
- Subject: Tape Management Systems
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- G'day,
-
- Our shop is looking for tape management systems alternatives on MVS. We are
- currently running one of the most popular systems (in terms of numbers of
- users, not necessarily in other facets). We are sharing our tape management
- database with VMTAPE, as we share our tape library with VM. We are looking
- for something that is compatible with VMTAPE, and that will save us some
- aggravation and some money. Anybody got any experiences they could share?
-
- I heard talk that IBM may be coming out either with a tape management system,
- or at least the facility to put one on without extensive usermods. Anyone
- have more details on this? The only downside to IBM's proposed product(?),
- from what little I've heard, is that you have to buy everything with it
- (ie, DFHSM, DFDSS, etc., etc.) We have no interest in buying all of that
- becuase we already have third party products that perform those functions
- quite well, and we are happy with them. Can anyone substantiate, refute, or
- justify that claim?
-
- I have set the reply-to field to me, to keep the net clutter down (esp.
- since there is potential for some negative commentary that could inflame
- someone--I think we know who I'm talking about. I suspect, though, that
- some will be interested in what's said, so I'll summarize if so (flames,
- of course, would be filtered out to protect the innocent, or the not-quite-
- so-innocent ;) . /\
- (all the while, humming "Dragnet" theme)
- Thanks for your time,
- Art
-
- /===\ Arthur J. Gutowski, MVS System Programmer
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- Have a day.
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