W dniu 26.10.2021 o 22:54, Pommier, Rex pisze:
Hi list,
Was I the only one caught flat-footed with the IBM announcement today that in
just over 4 months (2/28/2022), they're dropping support on TS1140 tape
transports? Was there an earlier announcement that this was coming and I just
missed it or was this the first notification?
What's wrong with that?
TS1140 is ~10 years old.
There are TS1150, TS1155 and TS1160.
As far as I know. any existing support contract will not be affected by
the EOS announcement. Just no new support contracts for dates after
2022-02-28.
And of course no drive will stop functioning just because of the
announcement.
Last, but not least, third party service companies will still support it
as well as older equipment.
The only interesting thing I see here - it is the last native tape drive
supported by z/OS.
I feel like with 3390 - no more drives, just disk arrays and emulation.
And, to complement - there are very few virtual tape solutions with real
tapes on backend. And very few tape manufacturers.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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