CARTS is a suite of z/OS software solutions that are designed to meet the unique challenges of maximizing your removable storage media utilization. When you put CARTS to work in your data center, you will see real cost savings and operational benefits. Using CARTS to manage your removable media will significantly reduce your need for additional tapes, racks and tape hardware.
CARTS-TapeStacker analyzes the TMS Tape Management Catalog (TMC) and generates jobs that combine two or more tape datasets onto a single output tape. Datasets are stacked and restacked onto an output tape according to parameters set with Control files. After datasets have been stacked, tape usage increases on average from 20% to 95% of capacity. Tapes can be returned to the scratch pool after their datasets have been stacked onto another volume.
The best way to lower your off-site archive costs and remove the racks from your library.
Use TapeStacker to take all of those single Dataset, single volume tapes using expensive slot and floor space in your archive and consolidate them onto a single volume. CARTS customers have saved thousands of dollars in off-site fees after the first run.
Silo technology is a critical part of your data center's strategy to increase the throughput of your systems and lower your overall operating costs. Therefore it is critical that you get the most throughput possible out of your investment in silo technology.
A datacenter typically uses only 10% to 40% of the capacity of each cartridge in its silos. By stacking these cartridges, you can increase cartridge utilization by 90%. Density for each slot goes up while the cost of the slot goes down. You maximize the use of your silo slots – deferring future hardware purchases months or even years.
Because your datasets are stored on fewer cartridges you spend less time loading and ejecting cartridges. Tape Stacker minimizes the number of active cartridges and maximizes your silo's capacity. Tape Stacker also increases the amount of near line data available.
Why take boxes of tapes to your DR site when CARTS can stack them to a few Magstar or Redwood volumes? SMS requires that you first migrate datasets to disk before use – totally unacceptable when trying to get your site up and running after a disaster. Datasets stacked by CARTS are immediately available - saving you precious time and money.
CARTS-TapeStacker analyzes the TMS Tape Management Catalog (TMC) and generates jobs that combine two or more tape datasets onto a single output tape. Datasets are stacked and restacked onto an output tape according to parameters set with Control files. After datasets have been stacked, tape usage increases on average from 20% to 95% of capacity. Tapes can be returned to the scratch pool after their datasets have been stacked onto another volume.
CARTS supports tape robots and their accompanying software from the following vendors: