Steve Estle writes: >We are having some issues with our VTS tape migration (I'm sparing vendor >to protect the innocent) that necessitates us going and manually reading >some tape numbers in question. I am looking for some ubiquitous tape >utility that might be out there that can help validate the health of tapes? >Ditto comes to mind but appears this might have been sunset - not sure? >Any others that come to mind from folks (maybe CBT related)?
DITTO/ESA (IBM Program Number 5655-103 for the z/OS version, 5654-029 for the z/VM version) is still available, still supported. DITTO/ESA even has its own product page: https://www.ibm.com/products/data-interfile-transfer-test-operations IBM no longer markets DITTO/ESA for VSE (5648-099), and that version reached End of Service last year (2023). 21CS markets and supports a successor product called SMDMU for their VSEn operating system. ????? Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
