Could you provide more information about your mainframe environment?  Tape
technology in use?
OSA hardware attached to your mainframe?

We did a review of backup/recovery technology last year. Evaluated ALL the
products we could get our hands on. For many reasons that I won't bother the
list with, the final decision came between Veritas and *SM. Veritas is a
VERY expensive software outlay. Depends on how many nodes you are dealing
with.
In our case, TWICE the cost of an IBM Network Storage Manager supporting 150
nodes. Also, less flexible.

We are currently running ADSM on our mainframe.  We are going to be bringing
in an IBM NSM to port the ADSM solution to TSM on the IBM-3466. E-mail me
directly with your questions and we can discuss.

Good luck, but I doubt seriously you will find a better solution than *SM.

John G. Talafous                         Sr. Tech. Prog/Anal
The Timken Company                 Phone: (330)-471-3390
P.O. Box 6927                           Fax  : (330)-471-4034
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927
talafous AT timken DOT com                  http://www.timken.com/