Setting up the System, Tape Management, and Third-Party Products

Setting up the System, Tape Management, and Third-Party Products

This chapter describes the system, tape management, and third party setup to successfully implement CA Vtape.

This section contains the following topics:

CA Cloud Storage for System z Installation

Limited-Use CA Vtape License Requirement

How to Configure z/OS for CA Cloud Storage for System z

Multisystem Planning

Multisystem Requirements

Define a Catalog Alias

SVTS Reserve

JES3 Requirements

Define Virtual Devices Using IBM's Hardware Configuration and Definition (HCD) Dialogs

Define Channel-to-Channel (CTC) Addresses

Work Load Manager (WLM) Considerations

APF Authorizations

Logger Data Offload

Tape Management Configuration

VTA08NON Job to Allocate Non-SMP/E Data Sets

Oracle Host Software Component (HSC) and Storage Management Component (SMC)

Integration with CA OPS/MVS