Thomas,

A disaster recovery drill is difficult enough on like systems.  It is
not ADSM that is actually doing the write to the tape it is the OS.  I
would be very surprised if these two operating systems write to the
tapes in the same way.  There are may platforms that can use the same
media, for example the 3590 can be used by AIX, MVS and OS/400.
However, I'll bet that an MVS written tape would be useless to AIX.

Thomas Denier wrote:
>
> Someone from another ADSM site recently asked me about the feasibility of
> using an AS-400 as a disaster recovery platform for an MVS ADSM server. They
> envision installing ADSM on the AS-400, creating an ADSM database, restoring
> the database contents from a tape written by ADSM running under MVS, and
> restoring client files from storage pool tapes created by ADSM running under
> MVS. I am assured that the AS-400 has a tape drive that can read the type of
> media used by the MVS server. Given that, would the recovery scenario outlined
> above work? Could an analogous scenario be carried out with other combinations
> of operating system platforms? To what extent would DRM be useful in this type
> of scenario? I have looked over a sample recovery plan file created by an MVS
> server. I don't think the JCL portion would be very useful in other
> environments, but much of the rest looks as if it would be useful if it could
> be read successfully.

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