Re: TSM move off of mainframe????

Hi

I recently talked to Tivoli support regarding moving one of our customers 
TSM platform off mainframe onto AIX.

There is only two ways of doing this:

1. Do export of all your nodes from the S/390 server, and do import from 
thoose tapes into your Sun TSM platform. This will take a long time if you 
have a lot of clients. We did an export of 200 nodes, totaling 15TB of 
data on one of our other customers, who wanted to consolidate two TSM 
server into one. Doing export of 200GB could take up to 24 hours. this 
means, exporting 1TB of data takes 4 days. However, the customers old 
machines wasn't top of the line(IBM H50)...

2. Migrate your clients onto the Sun solaris, just by moving a group of 
clients each at a time. The negative effect of this, is that you will have 
to save the old client data on your S/390 platform. This means that you 
cannot remove your TSM server on S/390 until the client data has been 
built up on you Sun platform.(twice as many tapes).

Tivoli does not, and will not in the future, support moving the TSM 
database of S/390 platform to another platform such as Sun, AIX, HP/UX and 
Windows.

Also, Tivoli does not support doing backup of the TSM database on one 
platform, such as AIX, and restore of the database onto another platform, 
such as Sun.
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Hello!

I just wanted to thank everyone for their input on LTO and 9840B/9940A. It
was very helpful!  I have another question....  Has anyone moved TSM off 
of
the mainframe and onto a SUN/solaris platform which will be attached to 
our
SAN?  If so, do you have any advice or suggestions?  Maybe documentation 
or
a procedure plan for this process?  I've been looking on the tivoli site
and I have not found such a plan.  Thanks!!!!

Joni Moyer
Associate Systems Programmer
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
(717)975-8338