Naaa I went from MVS to UNIX...
MVS just has to use virtual volumes over on the unix box to write "export"
data to and then just import in on the UNIX box...
I move off two pretty healthy sized MVS adsm servers over to UNIX adsm
servers...
now we just run 12 aix tsm servers... ;-)
Dwight

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> From:         Tracy T.[SMTP:adsmigmo AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:58 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: migrate mvs server to unix
>
> I got some clarification on why my HSM client data
> can't be migrated from an MVS ADSM server to a UNIX
> server.  According to the Tivoli guys a UNIX server is
> not going to be able to read the EBCDIC tape format
> from the MVS system - so apparently *all* data on the
> tapes will be poo-poo.   We'll be starting from
> scratch - all history will be lost.  Doesn't seem
> right.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> wrote:
> > >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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