TapeFinder optimizes your z/OS and OS/390 tape environment to reduce cost, protect data, and save time.
TapeFinder, an integrated component of SpaceFinder Suite, complements your z/OS and OS/390 tape management system to monitor, detect, analyze, and resolve tape media and tape dataset issues across your z/OS or OS/390 environment. With powerful tools to sort, filter, trend, report, and drill-down to the dataset level, TapeFinder increases tape media efficiency and protects tape data storage while improving system performance.
Estorian TapeFinder enables you to:
- Identify the amount and location of data stored on tape, its owner, its age, and whether errors are media- or device-related.
- Quickly sort and filter datasets to isolate obsolete or infrequently used media.
- Monitor and analyze valuable information concerning size of datasets, percentage of tape used, logical pool volumes to forcast storage and budgets.
- Model migration from older media types and smartly acquire new media resources based on real world data.
- Simplify the planning and implementation of Tape Mount Management (TMM) and Virtual Tape Systems (VTS) with easy identification of TMM and VTS candidates.
- Create media - Search tapes by utilization, age, or department criteria and quickly turn data into media-summary tables.
- Discover out-of-synch conditions through auditing capabilities and supplied tape analysis procedures.
- Determine the status of scratch tapes throughout your environment, track usage and provide information to merge older, under-utilized tapes, thus releasing tape media for other uses.
- Submit entire lists of media to automatically change tape status to Scratch, Checked In, Checked Out, or other status in one simple step.
Supported Platforms:
- IBM z/OS, V1R1 and later
- IBM OS/390, all versions and releases
- IBM MVS/SP, version 5.1 or later
- IBM MVS/ES, SP 4.3 or later
- IBM DFSMS, all versions and releases
- Interlink TCP/IP, all versions and releases
- IBM OS/390 Communications Server, all versions and releases
- TCP/IP, all versions and releases
- IBM OS/390 SecurWay Security Server(RACF), all versions and releases
- IBM DFSMShsm, all versions and releases
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