On 11 jun 2011, at 16:53, Mehdi Salehi wrote:

> This implicitly means that we should use TSM 6.2 for open systems and have a
> separate island for MVS based on TSM 5.5.

why? An open TSM server can very happily work with a z/OS TSM client. There are 
TSM version 6 clients for z/OS, just not the server.

> Does the incompatibility between FCP and FICON have any issue with library
> sharing between TSM for AIX and TSM for MVS? Let's say TSM 6.2 for AIX is
> defined as library manager and TSM 5.5 for z/OS as library client.
> 

As long as the LM is at the highest level, not more than currently. I don't 
know if a tape drive can be both FICON and FC at the same time....

> Thank you.




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