Not much use if you want to stay with zOS
You will not be able to use existing FICON to tape drive connections.
You would have to use FCP to tape in order to make it work. Not much
of a migration path IMHO.

On 6/11/11, Remco Post <r.post AT plcs DOT nl> wrote:
> But, IIRC the good news is that TSM 6 for zLinux can now at least read (and
> maybe write?) tapes written by TSM 5 on zOS, so you have a migration path.
>
> On 11 jun 2011, at 16:19, Robert J Molerio wrote:
>
>> I checked about a year ago and the answer was NO.
>>
>> On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi <ezzobad AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Has IBM any plan to release TSM 6 for MVS?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
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>>
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>
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