Company Background

Interprocess specializes in SCSI tape drives for P/390 systems. But we provide more than just tape hardware:

Sales
assistance

 As an authorized tape drive reseller for several tape drive manufacturers, we can help you select the tape drive capabilities best suited to your needs. Our close association with the manufacturers assures you of the most up-to-date information on new tape drive features and effective resolution of P/390 compatibility issues.

Installation
support

 With a base of nearly 600 installed tape drives on OS/2 P/390 systems, we've gained years of experience attaching SCSI tape drives to all types of IBM PC Servers. We make sure you get the right cables, P/390 configuration validation tools, and hot-line assistance until your drive is up and working.

Device
driver
knowledge

 We wrote the SCSI3420 and SCSI3480 device drivers that are licensed by IBM for PC Server S/390 systems. That means we understand the bridge between mainframe tape CCWs and SCSI commands like no one else. When you need to have a P/390 tape I/O trace analyzed, we can help you track down the problem. And whether it's hardware or software, we can help you get it fixed.

Mainframe
savvy

 Interprocess has been an IBM mainframe software vendor since 1976. Our legacy product line consists of cross-system, system-level enhancements to the APL2 language under MVS and VM, including the AFM® shared file management system.

We have the MVS, VM, and VSE operating systems running on our own IBM P/390 Servers. So when you report a tape problem using DITTO, DFDSS, FCOPY, or stand-alone DDR, we know what you're talking about.

Responding
to
needs

 When Interprocess became one of the early P/370 OEMs in 1992, we soon recognized the need for 3420 and 3480 tape support in this environment. By 1994 we introduced the first OS/2 P/370 SCSI tape device drivers.

We're still working to improve the usefulness of SCSI tape drives in the OS/2 P/390 environment. Our "ISITAPE" device driver supports the newer tape drive models. "XTAPE" provides efficient OS/2 backup and restore capabilities with tape drive sharing between OS/2 and the P/390.

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