Virtual Tape System Replacement

Project Overview

Updated: October 22, 2007

Project Description:

This project will research options for replacement of our current mainframe Virtual Tape Storage (VTS) system.  Our current Virtual Tape Storage system was installed in 1998. 

Project Status:

A Request For Proposal (RFP) was mailed out to several Virtual Tape Storage vendors.  All of the vendors that responded to the RFP could not address all of AIS VTS project requirements.  The VTS team spent several days investigating an approach that would address the project requirements for AIS.  The solution that is being implemented is adding more DASD monitoring and changing the Job Control Language (JCL) in each Proclib member to move VTS files to DASD.  

 

For additional information concerning this project, please contract:

Sharon Bennett at bennet50@msu.edu