ViON Mainframe Tape Study Service

ViON offers a Mainframe Tape Study Service to assist customers in sizing tape solutions for mainframe environments.

ViON analyzes customer provided RMF/SMF data to answer the following typical questions:

• Are the tape resources well managed?
• Are the tape media well organized?
• Which tapes were mounted, and where were they mounted?
• Are sufficient drives available?
• Is there sufficient virtual tape capacity for the existing workload, are the mount times good, and is there capacity for additional workloads?

Output provided includes the following:

• Tape media profile, inventory and last used analysis
• Tape mount analysis
• Tape library analysis
• Drive usage analysis
• Virtual tape library analysis
• Recommendations to improve the tape infrastructure.

ViON’s Mainframe Tape Study Service allows our customers to get the most from their enterprise tape investment.

To learn more about ViON’s Mainframe Tape Study Service, please submit a request.