If you're running a FLEX-ES system, you can get around the no-tape-drive issue by using the FAKETAPE utility.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 14:36 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CA ESD files On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:20:57 -0600, Tony Harminc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:56:17 +0200, גדי &amp;#1489;ן אבי <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Does anyone know of a way to extract files from a CA ESD file without using >a tape drive. > >This gets discussed from time to time. <snip> > >Best bet is to submit a requirement to CA. I've often enough wanted to >restore just one file from one of their tapes, and having to use a physical >tape for this is ridiculous. > Agree. But installation procedures / JCL would have to be adapted. >Or maybe one of the virtual tape vendors, or the MFNetDisk guy could make it >happen without a real tape. > If you have one of the virtual tape HW products this isn't really an issue so I don't think any virtual tape vendor would waste their time. Just create the install tape to virtual tape. I still like the tape option (virtual) because after I install the product why do I need to keep the install libraries on DASD. There is already 2 copies of data (tgt/dlib) for any product which is SMP/E installed - which would be just about (it not) all of them. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
