IBM TS7700 Release 4.2 Guide

IBM TS7700 Release 4.2 Guide

by Larry Coyne, Derek Erdmann, Joe Hew, Sosuke Matsui, Alberto Barajas Ortiz, Aderson Pacini, Michael Scott, Chen Zhu
Released April 2019
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738457376

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R4.2. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems for optimal operation.

Building on over 20 years of virtual tape experience, the TS7760 now supports the ability to store virtual tape volumes in an object store. The TS7700 has supported off loading to physical tape for over two decades. Off loading to physical tape behind a TS7700 is utilized by hundreds of organizations around the world. Using the same hierarchical storage techniques, the TS7700 can also off load to object storage. Given object storage is cloud based and accessible from different regions, the TS7760 Cloud Storage Tier support essentially allows the cloud to be an extension of the grid. As of the release of this document, the TS7760C supports the ability to off load to IBM Cloud Object Storage as well as Amazon S3.

To learn about the TS7760 cloud storage tier function, planning, implementation, best practices, and support see IBM Redpaper IBM TS7760 R4.2 Cloud Storage Tier Guide, redp-5514 at:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5514.html

The IBM TS7700 offers a modular, scalable, and high-performance architecture for mainframe tape virtualization for the IBM Z® environment. It is a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape. This storage hierarchy is managed by robust storage management microcode with extensive self-management capability. It includes the following advanced functions:


  • Improved reliability and resiliency
  • Reduction in the time that is needed for the backup and restore process
  • Reduction of services downtime that is caused by physical tape drive and library outages
  • Reduction in cost, time, and complexity by moving primary workloads to virtual tape
  • More efficient procedures for managing daily backup and restore processing
  • Infrastructure simplification through reduction of the number of physical tape libraries, drives, and media

TS7700 delivers the following new capabilities:

  • TS7760C supports the ability to off load to IBM Cloud Object Storage as well as Amazon S3
  • 8-way Grid Cloud consisting of any generation of TS7700
  • Synchronous and asynchronous replication
  • Tight integration with IBM Z and DFSMS policy management
  • Optional Transparent Cloud Tiering
  • Optional integration with physical tape
  • Cumulative 16Gb FICON throughput up to 4.8GB/s 8
  • IBM Z hosts view up to 496 8 equivalent devices
  • Grid access to all data independent of where it exists

The TS7760T writes data by policy to physical tape through attachment to high-capacity, high-performance IBM TS1150 and IBM TS1140 tape drives installed in an IBM TS4500 or TS3500 tape library.

The TS7760 models are based on high-performance and redundant IBM POWER8® technology. They provide improved performance for most IBM Z tape workloads when compared to the previous generations of IBM TS7700.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Summary of contents
    2. Authors
    3. Now you can become a published author, too
    4. Comments welcome
    5. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Summary of changes
    1. April 2019, Third Edition R4.2
    2. August 2018, Second Edition R4.1 through R4.1.2 update
    3. May 2018, Second Edition R4.1 through R4.1.2 update
    4. April 2017, First Edition minor update
  5. Part 1 Architecture and planning
  6. Chapter 1. Introducing the IBM TS7700
    1. 1.1 Overview
    2. 1.2 New capabilities
    3. 1.3 Concepts of storage virtualization
    4. 1.4 Benefits of tape virtualization
    5. 1.5 Managing the IBM TS7700
    6. 1.6 Data storage values
  7. Chapter 2. Architecture, components, and functional characteristics
    1. 2.1 TS7700 architecture
      1. 2.1.1 Monolithic design of a Virtual Tape Server
      2. 2.1.2 Modular design of the TS7700
      3. 2.1.3 Previous Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server design
      4. 2.1.4 Principles of grid design
      5. 2.1.5 TS7700 Models
      6. 2.1.6 Introduction of the TS7700T
      7. 2.1.7 Introduction of the TS7760C
      8. 2.1.8 Management of the TS7700
    2. 2.2 Stand-alone cluster: Components, functions, and features
      1. 2.2.1 Views from the Host: Library IDs
      2. 2.2.2 Tape Volume Cache
      3. 2.2.3 Virtual volumes and logical volumes
      4. 2.2.4 Logical volumes and compression
      5. 2.2.5 Mounting a scratch virtual volume
      6. 2.2.6 Mounting a specific virtual volume
      7. 2.2.7 Logical WORM support and characteristics
      8. 2.2.8 Virtual drives
      9. 2.2.9 Selective Device Access Control
      10. 2.2.10 Physical drives
      11. 2.2.11 Stacked volume
      12. 2.2.12 Selective Dual Copy function
      13. 2.2.13 General TVC management in a stand-alone cluster
      14. 2.2.14 TVC Cache management in a TS7740 stand-alone cluster
      15. 2.2.15 TVC cache management in a TS7700D, TS7700T, and TS7760C CP0 stand-alone cluster
      16. 2.2.16 TVC Cache management in a TS7700T CPx stand-alone cluster
      17. 2.2.17 Expired virtual volumes and the Delete Expired function
      18. 2.2.18 TVC management processes for TS7740, TS7700T, or TS7760C CPx
      19. 2.2.19 TVC handling in outage situations
      20. 2.2.20 Copy Consistency Point: Copy policy modes in a stand-alone cluster
      21. 2.2.21 TVC selection in a stand-alone cluster
      22. 2.2.22 TVC encryption
      23. 2.2.23 Physical volume pools
      24. 2.2.24 Logical and stacked volume management
      25. 2.2.25 Secure Data Erase function
      26. 2.2.26 Copy Export function
      27. 2.2.27 Encryption of physical tapes
      28. 2.2.28 User Management: Roles and profiles
      29. 2.2.29 Security identification by using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
      30. 2.2.30 Grid Resiliency Functions
      31. 2.2.31 Service preparation mode
      32. 2.2.32 Service mode
      33. 2.2.33 Control Unit Initiated Reconfiguration
    3. 2.3 Multi-cluster grid configurations: Components, functions, and features
      1. 2.3.1 Rules in a multi-cluster grid
      2. 2.3.2 Required grid hardware
      3. 2.3.3 Data integrity by volume ownership
      4. 2.3.4 I/O TVC selection
      5. 2.3.5 Copy consistency points
      6. 2.3.6 Cluster family concept
      7. 2.3.7 Override settings concept
      8. 2.3.8 Host view of a multi-cluster grid and Library IDs
      9. 2.3.9 Tape Volume Cache
      10. 2.3.10 Virtual volumes and logical volumes
      11. 2.3.11 Mounting a scratch virtual volume
      12. 2.3.12 Mounting a specific virtual volume
      13. 2.3.13 Logical WORM support and characteristics
      14. 2.3.14 Virtual drives
      15. 2.3.15 Allocation assistance
      16. 2.3.16 Selective Device Access Control
      17. 2.3.17 Physical drives
      18. 2.3.18 Stacked volume
      19. 2.3.19 Selective Dual Copy function
      20. 2.3.20 General TVC management in multi-cluster grids
      21. 2.3.21 Expired virtual volumes and the Delete Expired function
      22. 2.3.22 TVC management for TS7740/TS7700T/TS7760C CPx in a multi-cluster grid
      23. 2.3.23 TVC management for TS7760 or TS7720 in a multi-cluster grid
      24. 2.3.24 TVC management processes in a multi-cluster grid
      25. 2.3.25 Copy Consistency Point: Copy policy modes in a multi-cluster grid
      26. 2.3.26 TVC (I/O) selection in a multi-cluster grid
      27. 2.3.27 TVC handling in an unavailability condition
      28. 2.3.28 Remote (cross) cluster mounts
      29. 2.3.29 TVC encryption
      30. 2.3.30 Logical and stacked volume management
      31. 2.3.31 Secure Data Erase
      32. 2.3.32 Copy Export
      33. 2.3.33 Encryption of physical tapes
      34. 2.3.34 Autonomic Ownership Takeover Manager
      35. 2.3.35 Selective Write Protect for disaster recovery testing
      36. 2.3.36 FlashCopy for disaster recovery testing
      37. 2.3.37 Grid resiliency functions
      38. 2.3.38 Service preparation mode
      39. 2.3.39 Service mode
      40. 2.3.40 Control Unit Initiated Reconfiguration
    4. 2.4 Grid configuration examples
      1. 2.4.1 Homogeneous versus hybrid grid configuration
      2. 2.4.2 Planning for high availability or disaster recovery in limited distances
      3. 2.4.3 Disaster recovery capabilities in a remote data center
      4. 2.4.4 Configuration examples
  8. Chapter 3. IBM TS7700 usage considerations
    1. 3.1 Introduction
      1. 3.1.1 A short look at history
      2. 3.1.2 Challenges of today’s businesses
      3. 3.1.3 Challenges of technology progress
    2. 3.2 Gather your business requirements
      1. 3.2.1 Requirement types
      2. 3.2.2 Environment: Source of data
      3. 3.2.3 Backup data, active data, and archive data
      4. 3.2.4 IBM DB2 archive log handling
      5. 3.2.5 DFSMShsm Migration Level 2
      6. 3.2.6 Object access method: Object processing
      7. 3.2.7 Batch processing: Active data
      8. 3.2.8 Data type and cache control
    3. 3.3 Features and functions for all TS7700 models
      1. 3.3.1 Stand alone versus grid environments
      2. 3.3.2 Sharing a TS7700
      3. 3.3.3 Tape Volume Cache selection
      4. 3.3.4 Copy Consistency policy
      5. 3.3.5 Synchronous mode copy
      6. 3.3.6 Override policies
      7. 3.3.7 Cluster family
      8. 3.3.8 Logical Volume Delete Expire Processing versus previous implementations
      9. 3.3.9 Software compression (LZ4 and ZSTD)
      10. 3.3.10 Encryption
      11. 3.3.11 z/OS Allocation with multiple grids connected to a single host
      12. 3.3.12 z/OS Allocation assistance inside a grid
      13. 3.3.13 25 GB logical volumes
      14. 3.3.14 Grid resiliency function: “Remote” fence
      15. 3.3.15 Control Unit Initiated Reconfiguration
    4. 3.4 Features and functions available only for the TS7700T
    5. 3.5 Operation aspects: Monitoring and alerting
      1. 3.5.1 Message handling
      2. 3.5.2 Regularly scheduled performance monitoring
      3. 3.5.3 Optional checks
    6. 3.6 Choosing a migration method
      1. 3.6.1 Host-based migration
      2. 3.6.2 TS7700 internal data migration
      3. 3.6.3 Tape drive technology behind a TS7700
  9. Chapter 4. Preinstallation planning and sizing
    1. 4.1 Hardware installation and infrastructure planning
      1. 4.1.1 System requirements
      2. 4.1.2 TS7700 specific limitations
      3. 4.1.3 TCP/IP configuration considerations
      4. 4.1.4 Factors that affect performance at a distance
      5. 4.1.5 Host attachments
      6. 4.1.6 Planning for LDAP for user authentication in your TS7700 subsystem
      7. 4.1.7 Cluster time coordination
    2. 4.2 Planning for a grid operation
      1. 4.2.1 Autonomic Ownership Takeover Manager considerations
      2. 4.2.2 Defining grid copy mode control
      3. 4.2.3 Defining scratch mount candidates
      4. 4.2.4 Retain Copy mode
      5. 4.2.5 Defining cluster families
      6. 4.2.6 TS7720 and TS7760 cache thresholds and removal policies
      7. 4.2.7 Data management settings (TS7740/TS7700T CPx in a multi-cluster grid)
      8. 4.2.8 High availability considerations
      9. 4.2.9 Planning for cloud operation
    3. 4.3 Planning for software implementation
      1. 4.3.1 Host configuration definition
      2. 4.3.2 Software requirements
      3. 4.3.3 System-managed storage tape environments
      4. 4.3.4 Sharing and partitioning considerations
      5. 4.3.5 Library Manager Category Usage Considerations
      6. 4.3.6 Sharing the TS7700 by multiple hosts
      7. 4.3.7 Partitioning the TS7700 between multiple hosts
      8. 4.3.8 Logical path considerations
    4. 4.4 Planning for logical and physical volumes
      1. 4.4.1 Volume serial numbering
      2. 4.4.2 Virtual volumes
      3. 4.4.3 Logical WORM
      4. 4.4.4 Physical volumes for TS7740, TS7720T, and TS7760T
      5. 4.4.5 Data compression
      6. 4.4.6 Secure Data Erase function
      7. 4.4.7 Planning for tape encryption in a TS7740, TS7720T, and TS7760T
      8. 4.4.8 Planning for cache disk encryption in the TS7700
    5. 4.5 Tape analysis and sizing the TS7700
      1. 4.5.1 IBM tape tools
      2. 4.5.2 BatchMagic
      3. 4.5.3 Workload considerations
      4. 4.5.4 Education and training
      5. 4.5.5 Implementation services
  10. Chapter 5. Disaster recovery
    1. 5.1 TS7700 disaster recovery principles
      1. 5.1.1 Data availability
      2. 5.1.2 Deferred Copy Queue
      3. 5.1.3 Volume ownership
    2. 5.2 Failover scenarios
    3. 5.3 Planning for disaster recovery
      1. 5.3.1 Disaster recovery site connectivity IODF considerations
      2. 5.3.2 Grid configuration
      3. 5.3.3 Planning guidelines
    4. 5.4 High availability and disaster recovery configurations
      1. 5.4.1 Example grid configurations
      2. 5.4.2 Restoring the host and library environments
    5. 5.5 Disaster recovery testing
    6. 5.6 A real disaster
    7. 5.7 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex for z/OS
      1. 5.7.1 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex considerations in a TS7700 grid configuration
      2. 5.7.2 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex functions for the TS7700
      3. 5.7.3 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex implementation
  11. Part 2 Implementation and migration
  12. Chapter 6. IBM TS7700 implementation
    1. 6.1 TS7700 implementation
      1. 6.1.1 Implementation tasks
    2. 6.2 TS4500/TS3500 tape library definitions
    3. 6.3 Setting up the TS7700
      1. 6.3.1 Definitions for TS7760T, TS7740, or TS7720T
      2. 6.3.2 TS7700 definitions
    4. 6.4 Hardware configuration definition
      1. 6.4.1 Defining devices through HCD
      2. 6.4.2 Activating the I/O configuration
    5. 6.5 Setting values for the Missing Interrupt Handler
    6. 6.6 Defining fence actions
    7. 6.7 TS7700 software definitions
  13. Chapter 7. Hardware configurations and upgrade considerations
    1. 7.1 TS7700 hardware components
      1. 7.1.1 Common components for the TS7700 models
      2. 7.1.2 TS7760 components
      3. 7.1.3 TS7720 components
      4. 7.1.4 TS7740 components
      5. 7.1.5 TS7700 tape library attachments, drives, and media
      6. 7.1.6 TS3000 Total System Storage Console
      7. 7.1.7 Cables
    2. 7.2 TS7700 component upgrades
      1. 7.2.1 TS7700 concurrent system component upgrades
      2. 7.2.2 TS7700 non-concurrent system component upgrades
      3. 7.2.3 TS7760 Cache upgrade options
      4. 7.2.4 TS7720 Cache upgrade options
      5. 7.2.5 TS7740 Tape Volume Cache upgrade options
      6. 7.2.6 Upgrading drive models in an existing TS7740 or TS7700T
      7. 7.2.7 Frame replacement of old hardware with new hardware
    3. 7.3 TS7700 upgrade to Release 4.2
      1. 7.3.1 Planning for the upgrade
    4. 7.4 Adding clusters to a grid
      1. 7.4.1 TS7700 grid upgrade concept
      2. 7.4.2 Considerations when adding a cluster to the existing configuration
      3. 7.4.3 Considerations for merging an existing cluster or grid into a grid
    5. 7.5 Removing clusters from a grid
      1. 7.5.1 Reasons to remove a cluster
      2. 7.5.2 High-level description of the process
  14. Chapter 8. Migration
    1. 8.1 Migration to a TS7700
      1. 8.1.1 Host-based migration
      2. 8.1.2 Tape-based migration
    2. 8.2 Migration between TS7700s
      1. 8.2.1 Join and Copy Refresh processing
      2. 8.2.2 Copy Export and Copy Export Recovery / Merge
      3. 8.2.3 Grid to Grid Migration
    3. 8.3 Methods to move data for host-based migration
      1. 8.3.1 Phased method of moving data
      2. 8.3.2 Quick method of moving data
      3. 8.3.3 Products to simplify the task
      4. 8.3.4 Combining methods to move data into the TS7700
    4. 8.4 Moving data out of the TS7700
      1. 8.4.1 Host-based copy tools
      2. 8.4.2 Copy Export and Copy Export Recovery / Merge
      3. 8.4.3 DFSMShsm aggregate backup and recovery support
    5. 8.5 Migration of DFSMShsm-managed data
      1. 8.5.1 Volume and data set sizes
      2. 8.5.2 TS7700 implementation considerations
      3. 8.5.3 DFSMShsm task-related considerations
    6. 8.6 DFSMSrmm and other tape management systems
    7. 8.7 IBM Spectrum Protect
      1. 8.7.1 Native or virtual drives
      2. 8.7.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager parameter settings
    8. 8.8 DFSMSdss
      1. 8.8.1 Full volume dumps
      2. 8.8.2 Stand-Alone Services
    9. 8.9 Object access method
    10. 8.10 Database backups
      1. 8.10.1 DB2 data
      2. 8.10.2 CICS and IMS
      3. 8.10.3 Batch data
  15. Part 3 Operations
  16. Chapter 9. Configuring and operating the IBM TS7700
    1. 9.1 User interfaces
    2. 9.2 The tape library management GUI
    3. 9.3 TS7700 Management Interface
      1. 9.3.1 Connecting to the Management Interface
      2. 9.3.2 Using the TS7700 management interface
      3. 9.3.3 The Systems icon
      4. 9.3.4 The Monitor icon
      5. 9.3.5 Performance
      6. 9.3.6 The Virtual icon
      7. 9.3.7 Physical icon
      8. 9.3.8 Constructs icon
      9. 9.3.9 The Access icon
      10. 9.3.10 The Settings icon
      11. 9.3.11 The Service icon
    4. 9.4 Call Home and Electronic Customer Care
      1. 9.4.1 Electronic Customer Care
      2. 9.4.2 Assist On-site
    5. 9.5 Common procedures
      1. 9.5.1 The tape library with the TS7700T cluster
      2. 9.5.2 TS7700T definitions
      3. 9.5.3 TS7700 definitions
      4. 9.5.4 TS7700 multi-cluster definitions
    6. 9.6 Basic operations
      1. 9.6.1 Clock and time setting
      2. 9.6.2 Library in Pause mode
      3. 9.6.3 Preparing a TS7700 for service
      4. 9.6.4 The Tape Library inventory
      5. 9.6.5 Inventory upload
    7. 9.7 Cluster intervention scenarios
      1. 9.7.1 Hardware conditions
      2. 9.7.2 TS7700 LIC processing failure
  17. Chapter 10. Host Console operations
    1. 10.1 System-managed tape
      1. 10.1.1 DFSMS operator commands
      2. 10.1.2 MVS system commands
      3. 10.1.3 Host Console Request function
      4. 10.1.4 Library LMPOLICY command
      5. 10.1.5 Useful DEVSERV QUERY commands
      6. 10.1.6 Scratch volume recovery for volumes
      7. 10.1.7 Ejecting logical volumes
    2. 10.2 Messages from the library
      1. 10.2.1 CBR3750I console message
      2. 10.2.2 TS7700 Host Console messages
    3. 10.3 EXPIRE HOLD and scratch processing considerations
      1. 10.3.1 EXPIRE HOLD and low on scratch tapes in TS7760T, TS7760C, TS7740, or TS7720T
      2. 10.3.2 EXPIRE HOLD and cache utilization in TS7760D or TS7720D
    4. 10.4 Scratch count mismatch
    5. 10.5 Host cartridge entry processing
    6. 10.6 Effects of changing volume categories
    7. 10.7 Library messages and automation
    8. 10.8 Mount retry
      1. 10.8.1 Enhanced mount retry defaults
      2. 10.8.2 Enhanced mount retry example
    9. 10.9 CUIR for tape
      1. 10.9.1 LIBRARY REQUEST commands to enable or disable CUIR
      2. 10.9.2 Other commands built to support CUIR functionality
    10. 10.10 Cloud Storage tier considerations (R4.2 enhancement)
    11. 10.11 Return-to-scratch enhancement
    12. 10.12 Deleting logical volumes
  18. Chapter 11. Performance and monitoring
    1. 11.1 Overview
    2. 11.2 TS7700 performance characteristics
    3. 11.3 Basic performance overview
      1. 11.3.1 TS7700 components and task distribution
      2. 11.3.2 Grid considerations and replication modes
      3. 11.3.3 Workload profile from your hosts
      4. 11.3.4 Lifecycle Management of your data
      5. 11.3.5 Parameters and customization of the TS7700
      6. 11.3.6 Terminology of throughput
      7. 11.3.7 Throttling in the TS7700
    4. 11.4 Monitoring TS7700 performance
      1. 11.4.1 Base information: Types of statistical records
      2. 11.4.2 Using the TS4500 Management GUI
      3. 11.4.3 Using the TS3500 Tape Library Specialist for monitoring
      4. 11.4.4 Using the TS7700 Management Interface to monitor IBM storage
    5. 11.5 Cache capacity
      1. 11.5.1 Interpreting Cache Usage: MI
      2. 11.5.2 Interpreting Cache Usage: VEHSTATS
      3. 11.5.3 Interpreting Cache Usage: LI REQ,distlib,CACHE
      4. 11.5.4 Tuning cache usage - Making your cache deeper
      5. 11.5.5 Tuning cache usage - Management of unwanted copies
    6. 11.6 Cache throughput and cache bandwidth
      1. 11.6.1 Interpreting Cache throughput: Performance graph
      2. 11.6.2 Interpreting cache throughput: VEHSTATS HOURFLOW
      3. 11.6.3 Tuning Cache bandwidth: Premigration
      4. 11.6.4 Premigration and premigration throttling values
    7. 11.7 TS7700 throughput: Host I/O increments
      1. 11.7.1 Host I/O in the performance graphs
      2. 11.7.2 Host I/O in the VEHSTATS
      3. 11.7.3 Host Throughput Feature Codes
      4. 11.7.4 Tuning for Host I/O
    8. 11.8 Grid link and replication performance
      1. 11.8.1 Installed grid link hardware: Mixing of different Grid link adapters
      2. 11.8.2 Bandwidth and quality of the provided network
      3. 11.8.3 Selected replication mode
      4. 11.8.4 Tuning possibilities for copies: COPYCOUNT Control
      5. 11.8.5 Tuning possibilities for copies: Deferred Copy Throttling
      6. 11.8.6 Grid link performance monitoring
    9. 11.9 Considerations for the backend TS7740 / TS7700T
      1. 11.9.1 Amount of Back-end drives
      2. 11.9.2 Monitor Backend drives in the MI
      3. 11.9.3 Monitor Backend drives in the VEHSTATS
      4. 11.9.4 Monitor Backend drives with a LI REQ command
      5. 11.9.5 Tune the usage of back-end drives
      6. 11.9.6 Number of back-end cartridges
      7. 11.9.7 Monitor the usage of back-end cartridges on the MI
      8. 11.9.8 Monitor the usage of back-end cartridges with VEHSTATS
      9. 11.9.9 Tuning of the usage of Back-end cartridges with VEHSTATS
    10. 11.10 Throttling the TS7700
      1. 11.10.1 Monitoring throttling with the MI
      2. 11.10.2 Monitoring throttling with VEHSTATS
      3. 11.10.3 Tuning to avoid the throttling
    11. 11.11 Adjusting parameters in the TS7700
    12. 11.12 Monitoring after service or outage
    13. 11.13 Performance evaluation tool: Plotting cache throughput from VEHSTATS
    14. 11.14 Bulk Volume Information Retrieval
      1. 11.14.1 Overview of the BVIR function
      2. 11.14.2 Prerequisites
      3. 11.14.3 Request data format
      4. 11.14.4 Response data format
      5. 11.14.5 Interpreting the BVIR response data
    15. 11.15 Alerts and exception and message handling
      1. 11.15.1 Alerting of specific events
      2. 11.15.2 Handling Replication Exceptions
    16. 11.16 IBM Tape Tools
      1. 11.16.1 Introduction to IBM Tape Tools
      2. 11.16.2 Tools download and installation
      3. 11.16.3 IBM Tape Tools for TS7700 monitoring
    17. 11.17 Using Volume Mount Analyzer
    18. 11.18 Using VEHSTATS and VEHGRXCL for monitoring and reporting
      1. 11.18.1 VEHSTATS tool overview
      2. 11.18.2 Running the VEHSTATS jobs
      3. 11.18.3 VEHSTATS reports
      4. 11.18.4 VEHGRXCL tool overview
      5. 11.18.5 VEHAUDIT overview
    19. 11.19 IBM z/OS commands for monitoring
      1. 11.19.1 DISPLAY SMS commands
      2. 11.19.2 LIBRARY command
    20. 11.20 What to look for and where
    21. 11.21 Virtual Device Allocation in z/OS with JES2
      1. 11.21.1 EQUAL allocation
      2. 11.21.2 BYDEVICES allocation
      3. 11.21.3 Allocation and Copy Consistency Point setting
      4. 11.21.4 Allocation and device allocation assistance
      5. 11.21.5 Allocation and scratch allocation assistance
  19. Chapter 12. Copy Export
    1. 12.1 Copy Export overview and considerations
      1. 12.1.1 Control of Copy Export
      2. 12.1.2 Workflow of a Copy Export process
      3. 12.1.3 General considerations for Copy Export
      4. 12.1.4 Copy Export grid considerations
      5. 12.1.5 Reclaim process for Copy Export physical volumes
      6. 12.1.6 Copy Export process messages
      7. 12.1.7 Copy Export and DFSMSrmm
    2. 12.2 Implementing and running Copy Export
      1. 12.2.1 Setting up data management definitions
      2. 12.2.2 Validating before activating the Copy Export function
      3. 12.2.3 Running the Copy Export operation
      4. 12.2.4 Canceling a Copy Export operation
      5. 12.2.5 Host completion message
    3. 12.3 Using Copy Export Recovery
      1. 12.3.1 Planning and considerations for testing Copy Export Recovery
      2. 12.3.2 Performing Copy Export Recovery
      3. 12.3.3 Restoring the host and library environments
  20. Chapter 13. Disaster recovery testing
    1. 13.1 DR testing overview
    2. 13.2 DR testing methods
      1. 13.2.1 Method 1: DR Testing using FlashCopy
      2. 13.2.2 Method 2: DR Testing using Write Protect Mode on DR clusters
      3. 13.2.3 Method 3: DR testing without using Write Protect Mode on DR clusters
      4. 13.2.4 Method 4: Breaking the interconnects between the TS7700 grid
    3. 13.3 DR testing general considerations
      1. 13.3.1 The z/OS test environment represents a point in time
      2. 13.3.2 The data that is available in the DR cluster
      3. 13.3.3 Write Protect Mode
      4. 13.3.4 Protection of your production data
      5. 13.3.5 Separating production and disaster recovery hosts: Logical volumes
      6. 13.3.6 Creating data during the disaster recovery test from the DR host: Selective Write Protect
      7. 13.3.7 Creating data during the disaster recovery test from the disaster recovery host: Copy policies
      8. 13.3.8 Restoring the DR host from a production host
      9. 13.3.9 Scratch runs during the disaster recovery test from the production host
      10. 13.3.10 Scratch runs during the disaster recovery test from the DR host
      11. 13.3.11 Cleanup phase of a disaster recovery test
      12. 13.3.12 Considerations for DR tests without Selective Write Protect mode
      13. 13.3.13 Returning to scratch without using Selective Write Protect
      14. 13.3.14 Tier to Cloud Considerations
    4. 13.4 DR for FlashCopy concepts and command examples
      1. 13.4.1 Basic requirements and concepts
      2. 13.4.2 FlashCopy and Write Protect Enablement/Disablement Enhancement R4.1.2 and R4.2
      3. 13.4.3 DR Family
      4. 13.4.4 LIVECOPY enablement in a DR Family
      5. 13.4.5 Stopping FlashCopy and Write Protect Mode for a DR Family
    5. 13.5 DR testing methods examples
      1. 13.5.1 Method 1: DR Testing using FlashCopy
      2. 13.5.2 Method 2: Using Write Protect Mode on DR clusters
      3. 13.5.3 Method 3: DR Testing without Write Protect Mode
      4. 13.5.4 Method 4: Breaking the grid link connections
    6. 13.6 Expected failures during a DR test
  21. Part 4 Appendixes
  22. Appendix A. Feature codes and RPQ
    1. RPQ
    2. Feature code lists
  23. Appendix B. IBM TS7700 implementation for IBM z/VM, IBM z/VSE, and IBM z/TPF environments
    1. Software requirements
    2. Software implementation in z/VM and z/VSE
    3. Software implementation in z/OS Transaction Processing Facility
    4. Implementing Outboard Policy Management for non-z/OS hosts
  24. Appendix C. JES3 examples and information
    1. JES3 support for system-managed tape
    2. Example with two separate tape libraries
    3. Example with three Tape Libraries
    4. Processing changes
  25. Appendix D. DEVSERV QLIB command
  26. Appendix E. Sample job control language
    1. BVIR jobs to obtain historical data
    2. Extra BVIR reporting
    3. VEHSTATS reports
    4. Creating Volume Maps for logical volumes on tape or in object stores
  27. Appendix F. Library Manager volume categories
  28. Appendix G. IBM TS7700 parameter examples
    1. General example setup
    2. General example setup for Tape partitions
  29. Appendix H. Extra IODF examples
    1. General IODF principles
    2. Using switches to connect to the control unit
    3. Directly connecting
    4. Upgrading to 8-Gb channels
    5. Adding more devices
    6. Sharing ports
    7. LIBPORT-IDs in the MVSCP
  30. Appendix I. Case study for logical partitioning of a two-cluster grid
    1. Overview of partitioning
    2. Definitions and settings in z/OS
    3. Definitions on the TS7700 Management Interface
    4. Verification of changes
  31. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks publications
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. Technical documents on the IBM Techdocs website
    5. Help from IBM
  32. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM TS7700 Release 4.2 Guide
  • Author(s): Larry Coyne, Derek Erdmann, Joe Hew, Sosuke Matsui, Alberto Barajas Ortiz, Aderson Pacini, Michael Scott, Chen Zhu
  • Release date: April 2019
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738457376