Re: Optical Library

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well our image storage side works fine (Imageplus Visual Info) but we
can certainly spare a platter or two for long term storage.  The optical
library seems to be accessible through the IFS but I didn't seem to be
able to retrieve a savf from it correctly.

John

Patrick Townsend wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> I just recently went over some of this turf. The optical library seems to
> not have many useful APIs. Most AS/400  folks seem to go to Magellan, RVI or
> one of the other image management vendors.
> 
> But consider this: IBM's new LTO tape units are fairly inexpensive and I've
> been told they out-perform 3995 optical storage. And they scale up to much
> larger capacities. With one of these units you have a standard tape
> interface - much easier to deal with.
> 
> Patrick
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