I've not done the move yet but expect to in the next 6 months.  The con I
expect has to do with media movement to and from our offsite vault. On OS390
we have a vault management system that tells the ops what tapes to send
offsite, tells the courier which slots to put them in, which slots to pull
and bring back.  On AIX, we don't have such a system.

I'm also implementing a small TSM system on a small AIX network with a LTO
tape library.  What I notice there so far is that the 3584 takes more
operator intervention then does the 3494.  TSM on AIX requires me to reply
to messages to tell the 3584 to look for carts in the i/o station; the 3494
with TSM on OS390 just detects that it has carts in the i/o station and
files them.

David Ehresman
University of Louisville


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