Fred, First, to make sure I understand what you are looking for; is the tape file you want to copy already at 256K or do you want to re-block an existing tape-file up to 256K? The reason is that some tape copy utilities (CA Copycat for example) can support files with an existing 256K blocksize; but cannot re-block a file.
Also, which tape management system do you currently use? If you have CA 1 or CA TLMS; then there is CA Copycat. If you have IBM's DFSMSrmm, there is Tivolie Tape Optimizer. And there are other options (Innovations FATSCOPY and OpenTech's TAPECOPY that can work on almost all tape management systems). Of course, all of these are licensed products. If you want to do this yourself, without getting a new licensed product; then IEBGENER works fine and supports 256K blocksizes. And of course, both ICEGENER (for DFSort users) and SYNCGENR (for SYNCSORT users) are also available and can copy much faster than IEBGENER. But, none of these options will automatically re-catalog the file to the new volume or (optionally) update the Tape Management system to maintain the original creation date/time/jobname. But, I am not sure that is important to you or not. Russell Witt CA 1 L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Fred Schmidt Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 9:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Copying tapes with 256K blocksizes Anyone know of a CBT Tape or other free utility that will copy tapes with 256K blocksizes? I was hoping COPYMODS or similar would do so, but it looks like they only support 64K max. Regards, Fred Schmidt NT Government, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
