On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:05:41 -0700, Andrew N Wilt wrote: > I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to do that. > >IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 07/05/2007 >11:28:50 AM: > >> We've had a number of small DSS DUMP files written to tape that I want to >> move to DISK. Unfortunately, it seems that the dump files on tape get >> >> Tom Chicklon >> This is an instance of a more general problem:
To create on disk (preferably stream rather than CKD) an image of a tape suitable for transmission by FTP BINARY even to a non-IBM system, and from there recreating the original tape with all labels and data sets intact. CBT, perhaps? SAS? FATAR? Didn't someone recently mention here a vendor who distributes software via network in such an image format, along with a utility to create a tape for SMP/E installation? Alas, for me this is more academic than I'd like: after a recent corporate acquisition we've outsourced our media production to be done on squatty boxen, after outsourcing the squatty box software development to a third entity. To make this work, I'd need to reverse engineer (unless specs are available) the squatty box internal format. Still, I'd like to be able to bypass a FedEx step in the general case as we now can only for LABEL=(nn,NL),RECFM=FB,... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
