RE: BRMS tapes/platform migration

On the question of the VTL, you can indeed hook one up to both systems at
the same time. The SPHiNX with both Larry and I use (and sell) will emulate
4 3584 tape libraries. Connect it to your systems with fibre or SAS.
Drivers are available for most OS platforms (SUSE and RedHat for certain)
Other VTLs are capable of the same thing as well. Pick your brand.

You could save a tape from IBM i in ASCII then move the tape into the UNIX
pool and use it there, and visa versa.

For Lab Services you'll need to contact your business partner to get an
agreement. Mark Even is the contact in Rochester.


--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack
Kingsley
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2017 5:12 AM
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Subject: Re: BRMS tapes/platform migration

Doctor, archived files from over the years. Once the new system is go live,
still might need to retrieve data from the old system. Jim, archival pretty
much, but... would you have any information on the lab services.
What I was really hoping for was that you could possibly hook up a EMC VTL
to LINUX, they there would be some tool available(IBM or OpenSource) that
could be utilized on some capacity which up until now I have not been able
to locate).

Jim,

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul,

You can format a tape as ASCII and use it as a save on IBM i to AIX
and back. BRMS can handle those saves quite well. The return trip
would have to be native save/restore command since BRMS would not know
about he contents of those tapes.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
Office: 414-433-4363
Cell: 414-915-1445
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over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who
conquers that fear". -- Nelson Mandela

On Jun 10, 2017, at 2:18 PM, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IBM SAVSYS/SAVOBJ/SAVLIB format tapes are unique to the iSeries. I

don't think any other system can make any sense of them. Best thing
about them is being able to SAVLIB and RSTOBJ from the same save.

Transferring data between systems you have to delve into standard
tape

labels (the iSeries SAV* formats are saved on tape in standard format
with standard labels, but within that standard file is IBM's unique
save structure). This means you have to use a CPYF to a tape device
file. The system at the other end can read the file and do something with

it.

Doing something with the file will most likely involve translating

EBCDIC to ASCII. Files without packed fields are the easiest to deal

with.

--Paul E Musselman

PS-- another neat thing about the IBM i is being able to save to a
SAVF,

then SAVSAVFDTA and copy the contents of the SAVF to tape as if the
backup had originally been to tape! Due to some of the errors you can
get with a SAVF I've always felt that a SAVF was pretty much a virtual
tape device, and that SAVSAVFDTA was pretty much a straight copy.

.


At 11:55 AM -0400 6/10/17, Jack Kingsley wrote:

Has anyone converted platforms and had much luck integrating the
current BRMS tapes with some other platform, lets say LINUX.

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