TapeSaver®

TapeSaver is a rule-based system, with rules that are easy to define and maintain, giving you complete control over the stacking process. Using Boolean logic and any attribute of the tape management catalog, you define rules that determine what gets stacked, when stacking occurs and placement of data to the appropriate device. Extensive wild-card capabilities help automate the selection of input and output files and volumes.

TapeSaver 'cleans' your existing library and provides a comprehensive analysis of your environment. It will simulate the capacity requirements for a virtual tape subsystem (VTS or VSM) implementation, identifying candidates and capacities. TapeSaver will load and unload datasets, based on a logical and simulated approach. It will automatically move and stack disaster recovery tapes, and electronically vault the data to off-site devices.

Tape dataset management is an industry-accepted practice. More than 50% of MVS data centers save thousands of dollars a day by consolidating under-allocated and low-use tape datasets. The issue facing data centers today is not whether, but how to stack tape datasets to achieve maximum consolidation without affecting production cycles.

Determining which datasets to stack and on which tapes to stack them requires intelligent and robust decision support tools. For example, datasets that have to be used at the same time cannot be stacked on the same tape. And you want to ensure that tapes hold datasets with like retentions.