Hi Ken,
I have worked with DMS (now CA-Disk) from 1986 to the present, both as a user, and the installer in my shop. DMS was a Sterling Software product. Sterling was bought by CA some time ago - 10+ years ago. What's the dataset name on the tape? That generally will give a indication of whether it is an archive tape or a migrate tape. Do you have CA-Disk installed? If you do, you may be able to read the tape. I would recommend that you set up a separate files dataset and run an RBINDEX. That will let you recover the contents of the tape (if it is an ARCVOL), and keep the results separate. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Porowski" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:58:43 PM Subject: DMS Backup I have a couple of old backup tapes from 1995ish that I believe were created with a product called DMS. The tapes are historical data from a series of company acquisitions so the original creators are unavailable even to confirm that that was the software used. Does anyone know the history of DMS and if it is still available? A search seems to point to CA-DISK as the current product but I cant be sure if that is true or if there was another product by that name. Does anyone know if there is an eyecatcher in the file contents that could reasonably prove this is indeed a DMS backup (similar to the THAT'S ALL FOLKS in FDR backups)? Thanks all. Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Administration CIT Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
