The UNIX platform hasn't been selected yet, but from
the talk I've heard it will probably be either AIX or
Sun.

The client (AIX) is not changing platforms, only the
server.  There will still be HSM storage after this
move is done.  And unfortunately I wasn't in the
meetings with the Tivoli (I assume they were Tivoli)
people when all this was being discussed.  I've only
heard it second hand.

--- Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> wrote:
> >We're planning on moving from a MVS server to a
> >We're planning on moving from a MVS server to a
> UNIX
> >server, sometime the first of next year.  We were
> told
> >that (for whatever reason), HSM data on clients is
> not
> >migratable from one server to the next, even though
> we
> >plan on using the same tape library.
>
> Tracy - Whoever told you that should explain to you
> what they
>         meant.  Certainly the Export Node command
> will export
> Spacemanaged data.  You didn't tell us what flavor
> of Unix, but
> certainly AIX and Solaris have HSM client support.
> Worst case, you could get two 36GB disks for all the
> data, mark
> it Read-without-recall on the present client, and
> network transfer
> it to the new system's disks for non-HSM storage.
> And there are
> file systems which auto-compress data.  Lots of
> possibilities
> with today's technology.
>    Richard Sims, BU


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