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		<title>What is the storage capacity overhead introduced by the Channel Gateway?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=15</link>
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A: The overhead is very small &amp;#8211; usually in the range of .05%
to .10% of the total storage capacity. 
The overhead is 8 bytes per tape block. 
Thus if you write a 10 Gbyte tape using a ...</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:50:06 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>How does the Channel Gateway eject tapes?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=10</link>
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A: For disk based storage, an eject (rewind/unload) is
simply the process of making the virtual tape data no longer available. For
true tape-based storage, an eject command is issued to the  ...</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:46:58 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>How is the server and storage status monitored from the mainframe?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=46</link>
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A: Using Luminex&#039;s mainframe software Admin+, information such as filesystem capacity,
server health, scratch tape monitoring, and many other actions and status can
be initiated from the mai ...</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:15:02 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>How are Scratch pool requests managed?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=26</link>
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A: JCL is provided/written to periodically send to the
Channel Gateway a report on the tapes that are to be placed back into the
scratch pool. The report is sent to a special VOLSER on the C ...</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:55:12 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>How does the Mainframe connect to the Channel Gateway?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=1</link>
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A: Using the
native FICON or ESCON mainframe channels

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:28:59 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>What tape management software does the Channel Gateway work with?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=29</link>
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A: The Channel Gateway has successfully been used with TMS, Control-T, Dynam-T, RMM, BIM/Epic and other
standard tape management software.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:58:37 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>8G Long-Wave FICON support</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:39:37 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Is 3590 Emulation Supported?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=8</link>
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A: Yes. The Channel Gateway appears to the mainframe as a native 3590 interface with the same commands and capacities. Your applications will not require any modification.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:28:43 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>What&#039;s the difference between deduplication and compression?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=57</link>
		<description>A: Deduplication
is an intelligent compression process in which large common data segments are
replaced with far smaller indexes that point to one common single instance of
the common data segm ...</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:25:22 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>Does the Channel Gateway support EMIF environments?</title>
		<link>https://luminexknowledge.com/activekb/questions.php?questionid=5</link>
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A: Yes.

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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:32:04 GMT</pubDate>
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