This skipped my attention too, but apparantly VTFM (Virtual Tape Facility for Mainframe Systems) is now also supporting zIIP "for most of its workload". I won't blame you if you don't know the product. Actually, I wrote about it once before at the end of 2008. It came into the hands of IBM when IBM took over Dilligent. The de-duplication technology has gotten al lot of attention since, but VTFM stayed in the catalogue as well. You can best compare it with CA-VTape. Both are softwares running on z/OS acting as a virtual tape library.
CA-VTape was one of the first ISV softwares to offer zIIP support and the customers I know using it are quite satisfied with the offload it realizes to zIIP. So let's hope that the promise of VTFM to also offload "most of its workload" to zIIP proves to be true.
You can find all necessery information to implement the zIIP support via this APAR PM06523.
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My name is David Helsley, I work for CA Technologies and am the Principal Architect for the CA Vtape Virtual Tape System. I was glad to hear you know of customers who are satisfied with the zIIP offload numbers. Our benchmarks have shown up to 85% of CA Vtape’s CPU is zIIP eligible. If anyone has other questions about CA Vtape or our other products, we would like to help.
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