LMS — Library Management Systems

For decades, integrating IBM Mainframe and System i environments into enterprise backup strategies has been a persistent challenge. While open-systems backup technologies have rapidly evolved—embracing innovations such as deduplication, power-managed storage, and electronic vaulting—Mainframe and System i have often remained isolated.

LMS solution bridges this gap.

It seamlessly unifies Mainframe and System i backups with modern enterprise backup infrastructures, enabling organizations to:

Improve backup and recovery efficiency across all platforms
Reduce operational complexity and storage costs
Leverage existing enterprise data protection investments

With LMS, backup managers can finally bring their Mainframe and System i environments into the backup mainstream, achieving true end-to-end data protection and modernization.

Key capabilities include:

Full integration with IBM i and IBM Mainframe infrastructures
Support for physical and virtual tape libraries from leading vendors
Advanced deduplication and compression options
Centralized monitoring and reporting
Secure data movement and retention policies
High Availability and Disaster Recovery extensions

Key Benefits

Solution Benefits

Maximization of the storage
By sharing tape libraries, drives and volumes among multiple hosts.

Reduce costs
By consolidating IBM i systems and Open-Systems backups on the same libraries.

Performance enhancement

Increase interoperability
Our technology is designed to interoperate with major OS, backup software and HSM applications.

Unlock Your tape backup
We supports Quantum’s tape libraries for long term data retention.

Business Benefits

Consolidates backup infrastructure for both IBM and open-systems
The partners storage system can be used to protect all systems, simplifying management and operations while increasing ROI.

Simplifies disaster recovery and vaulting via backup replication
Backups tapes can be moved to an offline site in a secure vault, bandwidth requirements are low, only new unique blocks are replicated. Replication is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Simplifies day to day operations and maintenance
Both, Partners and IBM, offer non disruptive integration.

Architecture Overview

  flowchart TB
  subgraph host1["IBM i"]
        A["TMS"]
        B["LMS/400"]
  end
  subgraph host2["IBM z/VM"]
        BA["TMS"]
        BB["LMS/VM"]
  end
  subgraph host3["IBM z/VSE"]
        CA["TMS"]
        CB["LMS/VSE"]
  end
  subgraph acls["(Virtual) Tape Library"]
        ACS["ACS Server"]
        ACD["Drive(s)"]
        ACD2["Drive(s)"]
  end
  subgraph vtl["(Virtual) Tape Library"]
        D["Medium Changer"]
        E["Drive(s)"]
  end

  %% Connections
  A --- B
  BA --- BB
  B -. IP .- C["LMS/5180"] & FS["FS/5193"]
  C -- Fiber Channel --- D
  A -- Fiber Channel --- E
  BB -- FICON/SCON --- ACD
  BB -. IP .- FS
  FS -. IP .- ACS
  CB -- FICON/SCON --- ACD2
  CB -. IP .- FS
  CA --- CB

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  BA@{ shape: tag-proc}
  BB@{ shape: tag-proc}
  CA@{ shape: tag-proc}
  CB@{ shape: tag-proc}
  ACS@{ shape: tag-proc}
  ACD@{ shape: h-cyl}
  ACD2@{ shape: das}
  D@{ shape: tag-proc}
  E@{ shape: das}

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Solution for IBM i

LMS provides direct connectivity to IBM i systems through standard interfaces, ensuring smooth operation without disrupting existing backup workflows.

Highlights:

Native integration using BRMS and IBM i save/restore operations
Optimized performance for Fibre Channel and SAS configurations
Flexible deployment across Tape Library and VTL hardware
Full compatibility with leading deduplication appliances
End-to-end encryption and retention policy enforcement

With LMS, IBM i environments gain faster backup windows, simplified recovery procedures, and modern media management without requiring complex reconfiguration.

Supported Tape Library and Virtual Tape Library Vendors

Fujitsu CS8000
Fujitsu CS800 (MultiProtocols and VTL models)
Quantum DXi (MultiProtocols and VTL models)
Quantum Scalar Tape Library
HPe StoreOnce

Solution for IBM Mainframe

For IBM Mainframe environments, LMS offers robust integration that preserves existing JCL and operational practices while extending backup and archival capabilities to modern infrastructures.