On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:33:07 -0400, Robert Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lizette Koehler wrote on 10/12/2006 10:57:25 AM: > >> I was going to use TRSMAIN to pack some SMF Data from TAPE data set >> to dasd for FTP process. However the documentation for TRSMAIN >> states it cannot use tape. >> >> I do not understand why this is the case. What is special about >> TRSMAIN and tape processing. I would have thought it would just be >> simple BSAM writes of compacted data..... Can anyone shed some >> light on why tape is not handled by TRSMAIN????? > >TRSMAIN tries to include a size of the target data set so that its UNPACK >processing can do its job. That's feasible if it depends on format 1 and 3 >DSCBs for the input data set. Tape input is harder to handle with the same >goal in mind. > I know I use it for tersing a SA dump to tape (that was copied from disk to tape). I don't recall every having a problem. After we take a SADUMP, I don't want to take the chance that I might need the DASD dump data set again so I first copy it to tape using IPCS (I don't have enough dasd set aside to copy it to disk - 16 vols). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
