IBM® Releases Statement of direction for z/OS® 3.1

If you haven’t heard, IBM is planning that IBM z/OS® 3.1 will be the last release that

DFSMSdfp Object Access Method (OAM) will support the IBM 3995 optical libraries and drives for unstructured data (objects).

The other layers of the OAM storage tier will continue to be supported.  These include
IBM Db2®, z/OS zFS, NFS, tape, and cloud.

To learn more about the announcement, please visit the below link.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/statement-direction-plans-that-zos-31-will-be-last-release-that-dfsmsdfp-object-access-method-supports-3995-optical-libraries-drives-unstructured-object-data

Regards,

Mike Miehle
The UNICOM / Macro 4 Support Team