As far as I know (sorry I never had mainframe on hand to play with =-(
there is TSM client only for Linux/390 and OS/390 UNIX.
And if we read the "Using the UNIX Backup-Archive Clients" book:
"Image backup is supported on AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX. " !!
So the answer for me is NO. Even when you are able to access somehow the
drive in question in OS/390 UNIX (when Linux will have raw devices?) you
are lacking image backup client.
But same scenario with AIX or Solaris being core TSM server or at least
storage agent sharing library with the server can work. HP/UX is new to SAN
sharing, has only Server/Server sharing capabilities and I have not yet
heard someone to use it.
I hope this helps.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant





"Tweedy, Rick" <Rick.Tweedy AT CCRA-ADRC.GC DOT CA> on 29.10.2001 18:36:06
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Subject:        Re: MVS TSM Backup of RAW FS (ie.open Systems)

Well actually I will have other TSM NT servers in the picture but my
problem
is that I need to get the data to an MVS tape device and by using the NT
TSM
server I thought I was forced to move the data via IP to get it to MVS.
Currently MVS is the only client who can access the tape device in
question.

Where is the issue with doing what I want?  Is it because the MVS TSM
Server
is not a client or is it because the MVS TSM server cannot read the FS?  I
was hoping that it would be like in Distributed environments where you
quite
regularly need to back up raw disk as that is quite regularly used for
Database storage.

Thanks!
Rick