In <bitnet.adsm-l%9508301505.AA01905@s10>, GLW2 AT ofs.co.westchester.ny DOT us
(GLW2) writes:
> I had sent a request out yesterday for help in restoring Netware 3.12
>volumes and received several responses. Thank you.
> In connection with this, we experienced considerable delay (hours) in
>time spent fetching the dozens of 3480 tapes needed for the restore.
>There is no way to tell which tapes are needed so you just wait for the
>next mount message on the (MVS) console and send someone to the library.
>
>We had submitted a request to IBM (# REQ00048273) to provide a tape
>pull list facility and received the following response:
>
>Title: Ability to create tape pull list
>Response: Response entered on 19950119 at 15:45:14
> RECOGNIZED - IBM agrees with the request and a solution
> appears to be a desirable objective.
> A solution, however, may not presently
> appear feasible or implementable.
> No IBM commitment is made or implied
> as to the eventual delivery of an
> acceptable solution.
>
>Can anyone, IBM or otherwise, provide an update on this ? To other
>customers who agree this is important, your support in responses to
>this forum will be appreciated.
I submitted a very similar requirement at the recent GUIDE and SHARE
conferences. I hope that IBM recognized your request to be the same
as mine. I also submitted a related requirement titled 'move data by node'.
Assuming that you had your pull list as soon as you knew that the Novell
server had died, why wait around for the restore to start? With a move data
by node command you could be consolidating all files from the many tapes on
the minimum number of tapes, or even be moving them back up to a dasdi pool.
Then when the client started the restore(s), it would fly!
What is need now is to get IBM to move the requirements from 'Recognized' to
'Accepted'. Then they will get implemented sooner.
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Email: BColwell AT draper DOT com
Voice: 617-258-1550
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