Thank you, Paul.  Yes, that would be a nice feature to have.  It could
save us a lot of money for disaster recovery.  We are "partners" with a
remote site that uses TSM on Z/os; we are now using TSM on AIX.  It
would be nice if we could rent an LPAR on their server for a TSM
disaster recovery server.  As it is, we'll need to buy a smaller AIX
server for this purpose. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Zarnowski [mailto:psz1 AT CORNELL DOT EDU] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:25 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Managed TSM server with different O/S

At 03:40 PM 2/19/2008, Nancy R. Brizuela wrote:
>Is it possible to manage a TSM configuration where a Configuration 
>Manager is, say AIX, and the Managed Server is, say Z/OS?

Yes, this should be possible.

>Or is it possible to convert a database, used on an AIX server so that 
>it could be used on a Z/OS server?

No, this won't work.  Even if you could, the tape media would not be
readable.

If you (or others) want to be able to move a TSM database from one
platform to another (and point at the same tape media) let IBM know
this.  I suspect there are more and more sites who could use this (and
we are one of them).  IBM prioritizes development efforts based on their
perception of which new features are in highest demand by their
customers (and potential customers).

There are two parts to this problem:
1. Moving the database to a new platform 2. Being able to read media
created on the old platform from the new platform
    (at least transitionally, if not long-term)

..paul



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