As everyone has says, the z/OS TSM client will only backup the Unix
Services or OMVS part of z/OS.  3592-J1A drives are cheaper than
3590-H1A drives and a whole lot faster.  A few of these drives on a
3592-J70 controller can consume a FICON express 2 channel.  If you have
FICON available, consider the 3592 drives.  You will get 300 GB
cartridges vs. 60 GB cartridges. It time to make some investment on your
z/OS system.  Storagetek (AKA Sun) also make tape drives compatible with
mainframes.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Len Boyle
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:52 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Client for z/OS

Hello Sergio

The z/os binary can work with your aix server, but only backs up hfs
files on z/os. 
IBM, really a 3rd party reseller as IBM does not like to sell things
anymore,  told us to use the 3584 with the mainframe, one would have to
buy a 3494 like control box, switches, at least one new frame with 3592
tape drives. Which is more expensive that the lto-3's. The real $$$'s
are in the new control box, switches etc. The mainframe controller uses
an 3584 virtual library.

len 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Sergio Fuentes
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:54 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Client for z/OS

We currently have an AIX 5 ML6, TSM 5.2.6 server backing up most of our
clients.

We also have an IBM z/OS mainframe, V1R4 which has been independently
backing itself up using (i believe) dfshsm straight to some ancient
3490E drives.  We're running into problems fast with this backup
scenario, and this is the first time i've caught wind of this.

So, my question is that I see that TSM documentation for Unix clients
5.2.2 has this page:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMC/GC32-0789-04/en_US/HTML/ans
5000031.htm#oece

Therefore, I conclude that IBM does have a z/OS binary out there that
can connect to our AIX TSM server.  Can anybody verify this, please?
Our mainframe people are checking on this now, but I have a feeling I'd
get a quicker answer from this list.

Is there a specific avenue that we have to navigate through in order to
license this client?

Is there any other strategy to backup our z/OS server without having to
buy expensive hardware just to back it up?  According to our reseller,
we'd have to expand our 3584 library with 3590 drives just to backup the
mainframe.  But we'd really like to just add more LTO-based drives, and
the easiest way to do that would be with mainframe connectivity to our
existing TSM server.  Is there any reason why we can't or shouldn't go
this route?

Thanks for your help

Sergio