Were your libraries and tape drives managed by CA1 on the mainframe, if so, 
could the same volumes be recognized by the new media manager on UNIX.  My fear 
is having to convert or move 270 TB of data already on tape.  Or did you not 
move any data from the OS/390 side and just start with fresh backups?

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
William F. Colwell
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Migration of TSM server from OS390 or Z-OS to a UNIX or
Windows platform


Hi Ryan,

I am at the tail end of a conversion from OS/390 to solaris.  I don't have
a document to share with you.  One nice thing that helped a lot is to do an
"export server filed=none" to a disk file on OS/390, FTP it using bin to the 
UNIX box.
On the UNIX box define a devicetype to see the directory of the FTP file, them 
do an
import server.  You will get all the node definitions, domains, schedules, 
copygroups.
This was a big help for me.

After figuring out how to define a library and tape drives, the conversion 
process is
a tedious matter of getting each client to connect to the new server and to do 
a new backup.

Hope this helps,

Bill Colwell

At 11:35 AM 2/12/2004, you wrote:
>I know I have seen other messages about this before, so I hope I can find some 
>info.  We are looking into migrating our TSM servers off of Z-OS and I would 
>like to know if any one else has done this and if they have useful tips and 
>maybe even a high level document of the process?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ryan Miller
>Tivoli Certified Consultant
>Tivoli Storage Manager V4.1
>
>miller.ryan AT principal DOT com
>
>IT Systems Associate-Lead
>Principal Financial
>515-235-5665
>measure twice......cut once!
>
>   <http://www.principal.com/>   <http://www.deskflag.com/>
>
>
>

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Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.