IBM TS7700 Series DS8000 Object Store User's Guide Version 2.0

IBM TS7700 Series DS8K Object Store User’s Guide V2.0

The IBM® TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for transparent cloud tiering with IBM DS8000®, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets directly from DS8000 to TS7700. This IBM Redpaper publication describes the client value, and how DFSMS, DS8000, and TS7700 are set up to enable and use the function.

This IBM Redpaper publication contains the following sections:

•“TS7700 supported configuration” on page 6

•“TS7700 code requirements” on page 6

•“Host considerations” on page 6

•“DS8000 considerations” on page 6

•“Implementation steps” on page 7

•“Configuration steps” on page 9

•“DS8000 Object ...