Future Speakers

(subject to change)

July 7, 2015 - IOF Updates by Jim Ott

August 4, 2015 - Luminex Virtual Tape

We need ideas and volunteers for future speakers. Presentations don’t have to be fancy, just informative and interesting. Even a 5 or 10 minute talk can start an interesting interaction. Contact Ron Pimblett by phone as noted below.

2015-2016 SPARTA

Board of Directors

Randy Springs - President

BB&T                  (919) 745-5241

3200 Beechleaf Court, Suite 300

Raleigh, NC 27604

Ron Pimblett - Vice President

MDI Data Systems 919-426-6518

866-634-3282

Raleigh, NC 27609

Mike Lockey -  Secretary

Guilford Co. Information Services  336-641-6235

201 N. Eugene St.

Greensboro, NC 27401

Tommy Thomas - Treasurer

LabCorp                  336-436-4178

3060 S. Church St.

Burlington, NC 27215

Ed Webb -  Communications Director

SAS Institute Inc.  919-531-4162

SAS Campus Drive

Cary, NC 27513

Meetings

Meetings are scheduled for the first Tuesday evening of each month (except no meeting in January), with optional dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the meeting beginning at 7:00 p.m.

These monthly meetings usually are held at LabCorp’s Center for Molecular Biology and Pathology (CMBP) near the Research Triangle Park (see last page). Take I-40 to Miami Boulevard and go north. Turn right onto 1912 T.W. Alexander Drive. Go about a mile or so. Then turn right into LabCorp complex and turn Left to the CMBP Building. In the lobby, sign in as a visitor to see Tommy Thomas. Tommy will escort you to the conference room.

Call for Articles

If you have any ideas for speakers, presentations, newsletter articles, or are interested in taking part in a presentation, PLEASE contact one of the Board of Directors with your suggestions.

Newsletter e-Mailings

The SPARTA policy is to e-mail a monthly notice to our SPARTA-RTP Group. The newsletter is posted to the website about five (5) days before each meeting so you can prepare. The SPARTA-RTP Group is maintained by Chris Blackshire; if you have corrections or problems receiving your meeting notice, contact Chris at chrisbl@nc.rr.com.

November 2014 “CBT Tape” Shareware Online

The directory and files from the latest CBT tape V489 (dated November 12, 2014) are available from www.cbttape.org.

If you need help obtaining one or more files, contact Ed Webb at SAS (see Board of Director’s list for contact info).

Minutes of the June 2, 2015 Meeting

•Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Randy Springs, the SPARTA President.

•The meeting was held at LabCorp in RTP, N.C.

•Fifteen (15) people were present of which Eleven (11) are 2015 members.

•Everyone in the room introduced themselves, told where they worked, and briefly described their job functions or their job hunting challenges.

•The minutes of the May 2015 meeting was approved as published in the May newsletter. The June meeting minutes were not approved as the June newsletter was not published by the meeting day.

•The reading of the Treasurer's Report was given by Tommy Thomas, the Chapter Treasurer, but not yet published in the June newsletter. The current balance of $776.47 was approved as read.

•The June minutes will be approved at the July meeting.

OLD BUSINESS

•Articles are needed for this newsletter. If you would like to write an article for this newsletter, please contact Ed Webb. Keep in mind that you don't really need to write the article, it can be an article that you read that you would like to share with the membership.

•The SPARTA Web site is available at http://www.spartanc.org. Please send any comments or suggestions about the Web page to Mike Lockey. Be sure to check the Web site every once in a while to see any new or changed information.

•Tommy reminded everyone to leave the LabCorp conference room clean.

•Future Speakers and Topics (subject to change based on internal politics, budget, the weather):

If you have suggestions about speakers and topics, contact Ron Pimblett (919-833-8426).

•The next SPARTA monthly meeting will be July 7, 2015 at LabCorp in the RTP.

•Food for the July 7 meeting will be Chicken.

NEW BUSINESS

•The 2015 dues ($30) were due starting in March 2015. Please pay Tommy Thomas.

•Thanks to LabCorp (Tommy Thomas) for hosting the meeting.

•There are currently 59 people on the SPARTA-RTP emailing list.

•Send any e-mail address changes to Chris Blackshire so he can update the SPARTA-RTP Listserv. You will be added by the moderator (Chris = SPARTA-RTP-owner@yahoogroups.com) sending you an invitation to Join the list.

•The business portion of the meeting ended about 7:35 p.m.

PRESENTATION

What's New at INNOVATION Software by Thomas Meehan and Patrick Fitzsimmons of INNOVATION Software.

• Agenda

• Introduction… INNOVATION who, why, what, how and what’s new
• FDR, ABR and FDRINSTANT… employ hardware data replication to insure safeguarding data does not interfere with ongoing business operations.
• FDR/UPSTREAM… extends the strengths of the mainframe to provide data protection solution for distributed systems and Linux on z Systems.
• IAM… leverages the speed and efficiency of z Systems disk with zHPF IO support, including EMC VMAX, Hitachi VSP G1000 and IBM DS8000, to transparently accelerate VSAM application performance.
• FDRPAS & FDRPASVM… allows non-disruptive replacement of any vendor’s disk, anytime, and is available as a Vendor Service Offering.
• FATSCOPY… allows fast, easy and reliable migration between any vendor’s tapes or VTS, anytime, and is available as a Vendor Service Offering.

• INNOVATION Data Processing Has Provided a Long Line of Solutions
1972 FDR, IAM
1974 FATS/FATAR
1976 COMPAKTOR
1982 ABR
1983 FDREPORT
1992 FDRREORG
1993 FASTCPK, FDR/UPSTREAM
1996 FDRSOS
1998 FDRAPPL, FDRINSTANT
1999 FDRDRP
2000 IAM/AIX
2001 FDRPAS
2003 UPSTREAM RESERVOIR
2004 FDRERASE for z/OS
2006 FATSCOPY, FDRMOVE, FDRVIEWS
2008 FDRCRYPT
2011 IAM/PLEX
2014 FDRPASVM

- Today It's the Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Mobile and Social
- z/VM and LINUX on z Systems
- Greater Amount of Data across a Very Large Number of Volumes
- Use Technology to Improve Performance and Efficiency
- Automate to Eliminate Human Error
- Who is INNOVATION Data Processing?
- - “INNOVATION…striving to be the best..offering products to the market that are faster, more efficient and easier to use… with the same functionality as any other’s solutions for z/OS, z/VM and Linux on z Systems.”
- - The INNOVATION Promise… “when customers use INNOVATION Solutions in conjunction with anyone’s Enterprise Storage, INNOVATION Solutions make that storage perform at its very best.”
- - INNOVATION Is Your Best Partner
- INNOVATION Software Solutions make Enterprise Disk & Tape Storage look its very best…
- - • FDR/ABR • FDRINSTANT • FDRPAS • FDRPASVM • FDRSOS • SOSINSTANT • FDR/UPSTREAM • RESERVOIR • IAM • FATSCOPY

FDR Data Protection Suite
• FDR, ABR and FDRINSTANT
- New and Improved FDR Data Protection Suite V5.4 L83 FDR, ABR, FDRINSTANT, FDREPORT, Fast, Non-disruptive, Data Protection
- The FDR Data Protection Suite Answers Today’s Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Mobile and Social Challenges!
- z/VM and LINUX on z Systems
- Greater Amount of Data
- A Very Large Number Of Volumes
- Use Technology to Improve Performance and Efficiency
- Automate to Eliminate Human Error
- Fast, efficient and easy to use
- - Continuously evolving to be responsive to customer needs for the ultimate in reliable z Systems Data Protection
- One common set of data movers, using one common backup format
- - Allows System and Stand Alone Restore from/to any z Systems platform storage
- Replication technology for non-disruptive data protection & rapid recovery
- - Eliminating interference with ongoing business operations
- - Minimizing Backup Window Outages
- - Deferring Tape Processing Conflicts
- Hardware compression and virtual tape deduplication technology…
- - Reduces backup storage requirements

• What’s new in the FDR Data Protection Suite - Continuously Evolving To Be More Efficient
- FDR/ABR
- - Extends ABR Data Protection to z/VM and Linux on z Systems DASD
- - Employs zEDC Hardware Compression (zEnterprise Data Compression)
- - Reduces Archive Recall Times
- - Coexistence for Transitioning Off of Older Legacy Backup/Restore Solutions
- - Extends Archive Protection in to the Next Century
- FDRINSTANT
- - Employs new FLASHCOPY technology for more efficient Remote Data Protection
- - Allows Selecting to Backup from multiple Point in Time Disk Images
- FDREPORT
- - Wider scope and greater precision
- - Full reporting from offline INSTANT, z/VM & z/Linux volumes
- - CSV format output for further analytics with larger fields for higher values
- - Track System Storage Tiering with date of last Transition

• What’s New in FDR and ABR?
- ABR data protection for z/VM and Linux on z Systems DASD Volumes
- - Full-volume backup and restore for CPVOL format z/VM volumes
- - Full-volume backup and restore for CDL format Linux on z Systems volumes.
- - Extends use of FDRINSTANT to VM and Linux on z volumes for point in time backup
- New zEDC Hardware Data Compression
- - z12 (and up) hardware compression saves disk and tape backup storage space
- - Significantly reduces CPU and elapsed time for compression
- - Hardware and software decompression available for disaster recovery
- z/OS 2.1 Style Parallel Batch Recall
- - recalls ARCHIVEd data sets for entire job in one pass, instead of just for one step.
- ABR can now coexist permanently with CA Disk or temporarily for conversion
- Archive now accepts expiration dates from 2028 to 2107

• FDRINSTANT…for fast, easy to use, non-disruptive data protection
- Enhances FDR and ABR to simplify non-disruptive backup and rapid restore
- FDRINSTANT employs EMC, Hitachi and IBM Local Hardware Replication
- - i.e. Volume and data set (track level) replication within a DASD subsystem
- - EMC TimeFinder CLONE / SNAP, Hitachi ShadowImage, IBM FlashCopy
- FDRINSTANT interfaces with EMC, Hitachi and IBM Remote Hardware Replication
- - i.e. Volume replication across DASD subsystems
- - EMC SRDF, Hitachi TrueCopy, IBM MetroMirror (PPRC) /Global Mirror (XRC)
- Fulfills client needs for flexibility to satisfy unique and custom requirements
with an intuitive, familiar and easy to use interface.

What’s new in FDRINSTANT?
- FDRINSTANT and ABRINSTANT for zVM and z/LINUX VOLUMES
- - Non-disruptive full-volume backup and rapid restore for CPVOL format z/VM volumes
- - Non-disruptive full-volume backup and rapid restore for CDL format Linux on z volumes.
- SELECTIVE ABRINSTANT “STAGGERED” BACKUP DUMP
- - Users maintaining multiple ABRINSTANT back imagers on disk can easily specify backup versions, other than the most current, for DUMP to tape/disk.
- FDRINSTANT, ABRINSTANT and FDRCOPY use New FLASHCOPY Commands Remote Mirror (Inband) & Remote Pair (Preserve Mirror)
- - Remote Mirror, FC commands to primary PPRC are sent across the link to a remote secondary
- - Preserve Mirror (Remote Pair), employs Inband FlashCopy commands to eliminate data transfer, prevent the Metro Mirror from going into duplex pending and keep HyperSwap
protection active by performing the FlashCopy operations at the remote site
- Remote (Inband) FlashCopy
- - Initiates FlashCopy from PPRC Secondary
- - No need for UCB to FlashCopy volumes
- - Practice Copy
- - Safety Copy
- - Full Volume Only
- Remote Pair (Preserve Mirror) FlashCopy

Want to learn more? http://www.fdr.com/products/fdrinstant

• FDR/UPSTREAM - Enterprise Data Protection
• FDR/UPSTREAM Answers Today Challenges - Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Mobile and Social!
- z/VM and LINUX on z Systems
- Greater Amount of Data
- A Very Large Number of Volumes
- Use Technology to Improve Performance and Efficiency
- Automate to Eliminate Human Error
- z/OS Mainframe Storage Server Enterprise Solution
- INNOVATION FDR/UPSTREAM Solutions Help z/OS Customers by Leveraging Mainframe Resources to Consolidate Enterprise Data Protection
- z/OS server-based data protection solution, for enterprise-wide, file level, backup/ restore, long-term archival, storage management and disaster recovery of distributed data.
- Dual component (C/S) system offering high performance, reliability and automation.
- Extends existing z/OS tape management, job scheduling, security, auditing and
tracking systems to provide mainframe-based Distributed Data Protection.
- Apply mainframe automated operations to non-disruptive distributed data protection

• What’s new in the UPSTREAM Data Protection Suite
- UPSTREAM z/OS Storage Serve
- UPSTREAM Linus on z Systems and UNIX on z Systems Clients
- - Support for SuSE & Red Hat Linux on z Systems includes:
- - Command line, character mode
- - Backup, restore, file transfer and other UPSTREAM storage management features
- - A variety of file system features including hard links, symbolic links, owners, Reiser, ext2, ext3, ext4, GFS, XFS, NFS, MAPFS, GPFS, single file system support, etc.
- - Support for user specified file systems
- - Online support for Oracle, DB2, and Domino
- UPSTREAM Rescuer for Bare Metal Recovery
- UPSTREAM Distributed Data Storage Clients
- RESERVOIR Distributed OS Storage Serve
- UPSTREAM Rescuer
- UPSTREAM Management Facilities - Individual client or global policy managed
- - Interfaces with mainframe and client security systems
- - Backup data under control of existing z/OS tape management system
- - Retention periods usually managed with GDGs, can also use expiration dates, has the benefit of the system maintaining itself
- - Migrate Disk Backups to Tape
- - Repro Tape for Off-Site Vaulting
- - Bi-Directional File Transfer
- FDR/UPSTREAM Security
- - Interfaces with mainframe security systems
- - - RACF, ACF2 or TOP SECRET
- - Interfaces with client security system
- - - Registry
- - - Active Directory
- - - ACLs
- - - SeLinux
- - UNIX
- - - Permissions
- - - Owners & Groups
- Data Reduction Technology - Minimizes Data Transmission & Backup Storage Requirements
- - Incremental Backup of only changing data
- - Logical File Level Synthetic Full {Merge} Backup
- - Interfaces with virtual tape systems hardware De-Dupe technology
- - Operations employs data compression
- - Optionally employs software de-dupe technology
- - Segmented backup support
- - - Exclude Duplicate Files
- - - Auto Migrate inactive data

Want to learn more? http://www.fdr.com/products/upstream

• IAM - Improving VSAM Application Performance
• What is IAM?
- Extremely Reliable High Performance indexed access method
- - Well established, over 40 years, with over a thousand licenses sold
- A transparent alternative to VSAM for batch and CICS applications
- - Supports KSDS, ESDS, RRDS and Alternate Index.
- - Delivers CPU time reductions, as well as I/O time and channel usage savings
- - Provides hardware or software data compression techniques
- - Minimizes manual tuning
- Continuously evolving to be responsive to customer needs

• What’s New in the New just released IAM V9.2?
- Performance Improvements… IAM V 9.2 improvements continue to demonstrate significant performance benefits over VSAM, even if VSAM files are SMS Extended Format using System Managed Buffering (SMB).
- New zHPF Channel Technology… z/HPF I/O instructions and IAM Enhanced Format Files, increase z Systems channel capacity, reducing channel connect time, batch application run time & CICS response time.
- Better Storage Memory Usage… New 64-bit virtual storage I/O buffers, can keep more files open concurrently, with no application changes.
- Transparently accept almost all VSAM RLS file control options.
- Greater scope and finer precision in reports tracking IAM usage
- Index in virtual storage eliminates index component I/O and buffers
- IAM Dynamic Real Time Tuning
- - Selects best buffer management technique
- - Decides on, acquires & manages an appropriate number of buffers
- Record based overflow eliminates I/O overhead of CI and CA splits
- Data Compression increases data transfer per I/O to reduce EXCP counts

• What’s New in the New IAM?
- Transparently Employ new zHPF Channel IO Technology…
- IAM’s use of z/HPF architecture I/O is automatic.
- A primary benefit of z/HPF is increased channel capacity, typically a reduction in channel connect time.
- - IAM zHPF tests show an average 26% reduction in connect time.
- An additional benefit may be some reduction in job or transaction elapsed time.
- - IAM zHPF tests show an average 4% reduction in job or transaction elapsed time.
- IAM, in the face of an I/O error using z/HPF I/O, will automatically retry the I/O with a standard CCW channel program & temporarily suspend z/HPF on the volume for the dataset where I/O error occurred.
- New fields in IAMINFO reports & SMF records now distinguish I/O’s using z/HPF from ECKD-CCW.
- Storage System Requirements for IAM zHPF support:
- - IBM: DS8700 or DS8800 at 6.2 level and above.
- - HDS: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 at microcode level 80-02-01 or higher.
- - EMC: Contact EMC for current information on an appropriate VMAX microcode level.
- Better 64-bit Storage Memory Usage…
- -Transparently use 64-bit virtual storage for I/O buffers, without any application program changes - 64-bit virtual storage buffers can help lower demands on 31-bit addressable storage, and enable large CICS, IAM/RLS, IAM/PLEX, or other long running address spaces to have more files open concurrently.
- If 64-bit virtual buffers will help eliminate virtual storage constraints, users can set it as a default in the IAM Global Options, or use IAM overrides apply it to individual address space(s), without any application program changes.
- New CICS Exit
- -Transparently accepts almost all VSAM RLS file control options.
- - CICS File Control EXIT, along with other internal coding changes
- IAM/RLS & IAM/PLEX now accept VSAM RLS file control options
- - Including UNCOMMITTED, CONSISTENT, REPEATABLE, and NOSUSPEND.
- - CICS application programs, without change, can now transparently use these RLS file control options for IAM/RLS and IAM/PLEX files.
- Greater scope and finer precision in reports

What to learn more? http://www.fdr.com/products/iam/pdf/IAM_Version9.2_WhitePaper_v2.pdf

• FDRPAS & FDRPASVM
- FDR Plug and Swap, Fast, Safe and Non-Disruptive DASD Volume Migration
- FDRPAS FDR Plug and Swap
- - Available since 2001 with more than 1700 licensed installations
- - Will non-disruptively relocate DASD disk data
- - Move logical volumes from
- - - Old disk to new disk during a hardware upgrade
- - - Highly active (hot) to less active (cooler) disk for I/O load balancing
- Old Source volume is put offline;
- - Label is modified so it cannot be brought online
- Will not interfere with ongoing business operations

• Software Support
- All current z/OS operating systems including z/OS 2.1
- Supports JES2 and JES3
- Multiple systems and/or Sysplexes
- All volume and data set types:
- - System/Application/TSO/Database/ Catalog /SYSRES…/CICS…/HFS…/ Sysplex Coupling Data Set / JES Spool…/Checkpoint Volumes… / “inactive” page and swap data sets
- Any volume can be swapped…
- - Except… “Active” Local Page or Swap data sets
- - Define new page and swap data sets and migrate (PAGEADD and PAGEDEL commands used)

• What’s new in FDRPAS?
- Continuously Evolving To Be More Efficient
- FDRPAS and FDRMOVE now use less common storage and fewer CPU cycles
- FDRPASVM for MIGRATION of z/VM VOLUMES and LINUX on z VOLUMES
- - All new FDRPASVM will have its own discussion
- SIMPLIFY MIGRATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA and VERY LARGE NUMBERS OF VOLUMES
- AUTOMATE to ELIMINATE HUMAN ERRORS
- IMPROVEMENTS IN EFFICIENCY
- SIMPLIFY MIGRATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA and VERY LARGE NUMBERS OF VOLUMES
- - SWAP Large Volumes 1 terabyte (TB)
- - Concurrently SWAP a Large Number Of Volumes
- New maximum ups 10,000+ volumes to 15,000+ volumes.
- Automate Creating JCL & SWAP Control Statements
- -GENSWAP generates all the individual control statements and JCL to SWAP a single volume or concurrently SWAP thousands of volumes, making it easy and eliminating potential clerical errors to migrate a complete SSID, Control Unit or site.
- JUST-IN-TIME MONITORS No manually starting monitors on individual LPARs, GENSWAP jobs submit a monitor job to all of the necessary LPARs, and pass to it a list of SWAPUNITs containing only those target units that to be used by the main job.

• What’s new in FDRPAS to eliminate human errors?
- QUERY HOST ACCESS (QHA)
- - Using a hardware facility available on newer storage systems FDRPAS can know which LPARs have a volume you are swapping online, allowing FDRPAS to ensure that monitor tasks are running on all the necessary LPARs and eliminating the need for manually including or excluding a CPUID
- COMMON PAGE DATA SET RETRY
- - Instead of a volume failing to SWAP and a job having to be resubmitted, if a common page data set is updated by a page-out, FDRPAS now simply recopies the data set on the next pass and the SWAP completes normally.

Want to Learn More? http://www.fdr.com/products/FDRPAS

• FDRPASVM is Unique
- FDRPASVM is a new high availability solution to non-disruptively move the DASD volumes of running z/VM & Linux on z systems, concurrently migrating many volumes, owned by many users to new DASD hardware… No other tool does this
- FDRPASVM (GA 2014) is built on proven FDRPAS technology
- - Over 1700+ customer migrations since 2001
- FDRPASVM has helpful tools to:
- - Estimate the migration effort
- - Validate the environment
- - Manage the migration
- You don’t have to bring z/VM or Linux systems down to move DASD
- FDRPASVM supports non-disruptive migration of:
- - User and CP-Owned volumes
- - z/VM Minidisk volumes (PERM)
- - Full-pack and DEDICATEd volumes
- - CP-Owned (must have two PAGE and two SPOOL volumes)
- - Smaller to larger volumes (ex: 3390-9 to 3390-27)
- FDRPAS functions:
- - SIMSWAP - Simulate and validate main swap task
- - SIMSWAPMON - Simulate and validate monitoring updates
- - SWAPDUMP - Create point-in-time copy of volume(s)
- - SWAP - Copy and swap volume(s)

• What’s in FDRPASVM to eliminate human errors?
- FDRPASVM is Easy to Install & Use
- FDRPASVM supports non-disruptive migration of:
- - User and CP-Owned volumes
- - z/VM Minidisk volumes (PERM)
- - Full-pack and DEDICATEd volumes
- - CP-Owned (must have two PAGE and two SPOOL volumes)
- - Smaller to larger volumes (ex: 3390-9 to 3390-27)
- FDRPAS functions:
- - SIMSWAP - Simulate and validate main swap task
- - SIMSWAPMON - Simulate and validate monitoring updates
- - SWAPDUMP - Create point-in-time copy of volume(s)
- - SWAP - Copy and swap volume(s)

Want to Learn More? http://www.fdr.com/products/FDRPASVM

• FATSCOPY
- Fast, Easy and Reliable Migration from / to any Vendor’s Tapes or VTS, at anytime.
- The ONLY Tape Migration Tool Kit you will ever need!
- Move anyone’s Cartridge Tapes - or - Virtual Tape System Volumes to anyone’s Cartridge Tapes - or - Virtual Tape System Volumes with or without deduplication

• What's New in the FATSCOPY Migration Tool Kit? Continuously Evolving to be More Efficient
- Summary of Modifications - Version 4.9 Level 26 (Q1 2012)
- - RESTART a FATSCOPY migration after an ABEND or operator CANCEL
- - New options keep FATSCOPY running when RMM housekeeping is running
- - Copy the physical backend volumes in a tape-backed VTS TS7700
- Summary of Modifications - Version 4.9 Level 27 (Q1 2013)
- - New parameter simplifies specifying range of volumes when copying all datasets on a volume
- - Adds IMAGE Copy support for RMM and CA 1… simplifies migration to DLm
- Summary of Modifications - Version 4.9 Level 28 (Q4 2013)
- - New consolidated log simplifies auditing a migration.
- - z/OS system logger allows multiple FATSCOPY jobs to concurrently write to a single log
- - Adds IMAGE Copy support for CA TLMS… further simplifies migration to DLM
- Summary of Modifications - Version 4.9 Level 29 (Jan 2015)
- - Adds support for the ASG Zara (Automated Tape Management System)
- - IMAGE Copy DLm migration now supports CA 1, CA TLMS, IBM-RMM and ZARA
- - Adds “Guided Path” ISPF Panels to make FATSCOPY even easier to use
- FATSCOPY Includes FDREPORT So You Can Plan Your Migration
- Find out how many of your tapes are…
- - Active
- - In scratch status
- - Controlled by an External Data Manager (OAM, Mobius and UPSTREAM)
- Generate reports from a CA 1 or IBM-RMM tape management data base…
- - List Volumes Not In Scratch Status
- - List “Active” Volumes & their Data Sets… i.e. Not Expired (In Volser Order)
- - Total Number of Volumes - In Scratch Status - Not In Scratch Status
- - Approximate Size of all “Active” Data Sets i.e. Not Expired & Not Scratch
- - Approximate Size of all expired datasets on volumes not in Scratch Status
- Create a portable extract from the tape management data base
- - Work remotely… generate reports on any system
- Generate scratch volume lists as input to the DLm scratch utility and release disk space backing the logical tape volumes that are in scratch status.
- Two Types of FATSCOPY Copies New Emphasis on Virtual Tape Systems
- - Physical Volume Copy – fastest & most efficient
- - - IMAGECOPY… for EMC DLm
Copies entire logical input tape volume & its VOLSER to an output tape volume.
- - - PHYSVOL… for Tape Backed IBM TS7700, 3494 or Oracle StorageTek VSM
Select all logical volumes residing on specific backend physical volumes
Limits back-end thrashing caused by physical volumes being mounted and demounted
- - Logical Volume and Dataset Copy – most flexible
- - - ALLDSN… using the tape management system
Copies all datasets from a specific input volume to an output tape with a new VOLSER.
- - - CATDSN… using the z/OS catalog
Copies datasets selected by cataloged DSN or mask to an output tape with a new VOLSER.

• What’s in FATSCOPY
- New FATSCOPY Guided Path
- Use FATSCOPY Simulation to Build the Migration Job
- Use FATSCOPY Audit Tools to Validate the Migration

• Why consider FATSCOPY?
- Familiar with reliability and speed of INNOVATION solutions
- FATSCOPY
- - Fast, reliable and extremely easy to use.
- - Supports CA 1 & z/OS BTLS (Basic Tape Library Sys) without DFsms.
- - Simulation & tools help validate the migration will work - - ASG recognizes it makes an exact IMAGE copy of Mobius tapes
- Eliminates need to externally update View Direct (Mobius) tape data base.

• FATSCOPY The ONLY Tape Migration Tool kit you’ll ever need!
- FATSCOPY Tape Migration from:
IBM 3480, 3490, 3590, TS1120/1130/1140, TS7700, MF-VTSM STK/ORACLE T10000A/B/C,VSM… CA-VTAPE.
- Fast and Efficient block by block physical IMAGECOPY to same VOLSER.
- Integrates with ASG-Zara, CA-1, CA-TLMS & IBM DFSMSrmm.
- Plan RMM and CA-1 DLm migrations with FDREPORT.
- SIMULATE to Verify what FATSCOPY will be migrating.
- AUDIT to create a record of what FATSCOPY did migrate.
- FATAR to recover damaged tapes and tapes with data checks.
- FATS/ERASE to securely and quickly erase tapes before disposal.

Want to Learn More? http://www.fdr.com/products/FATSCOPY"

• Links to HANDOUT in PDF Versions

INNOVATION Agenda and Intro
FDR_ABR_Instant
UPSTREAM
IAM
PAS
PASVM
FATSCOPY

INNOVATION Data Processing - support@fdrinnovation.com

• Speaker Contact Information:
Thomas J Meehan
Vice President
INNOVATION Data Processing
275 Paterson Ave
Little Falls, New Jersey, 07424
Tel: 973-890-7300
email: tmeehan@fdrinnovation.com
web: www.innovationdp.com

Patrick Fitzsimmons
INNOVATION Data Processing
Tel: 973-890-7300
email: pfitzsimmons@fdrinnovation.com

• The presentation and meeting ended about 9:45 P.M.