TapeMan ©
Cross systems tape sharing for OS/390
TapeMan © streamlines the use of tape drives among mainframe partner systems.
TapeMan © is Free
TapeMan © is dedicated as a gift to the MVS community in memory of
Wong Kon Tai
- TapeMan © controls the ownership and distribution of tape and library devices
- controls job throughput to ensure that jobs get drives when they need them
- shares tape devices among different partners
- ensures that tape usage is evenly distributed
- eliminates contention for tape devices
- SMS and non-SMS tape
- enables tape sharing in a simple shared environment when full sysplex support is not needed
- controls jobs through allocation recovery
- can prevent jobs going into allocation recovery for tape devices
- TSO interface to monitor and control the availability of tape devices and job throughput
