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This RFE can be closed because we can reduce our TSTB requirements.
Since "forever" our system runs Capture with an I/O time factor value of 1 (i.e. IOTIME-1). The TPF lab has explained to us that this value is meant for use in a Loosely Coupled environment; the SNCF z/TPF system is not loosely coupled. After analysing the expected I/O load and testing on our main test platform, we successfully (and effortlessly) completed a Capture run on our Production environment with IOTIME-0, significantly reducing the Capture run time while at the same time significantly reducing the number of parallel Capture tapes. With this result we can reduce the tape group for Capture to such an extent that the current TSTB size services our requirements so that the reason for our request is gone.
NB for those readers who wonder why the SNCF runs Capture despite using Hitachi HUR support for database restore: we don't use Capture /Restore for recovering from a database corruption because Hitachi HUR services that purpose admirably. We use the Capture to refresh our nobase test systems.