Thanks Clifford, I dug out the job which created the tape, executed a listcat and I found the device type. Thanks.
Clifford McNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Willie, Using ExHPDM to backup DASD to tape will cause these catalog entries with this DEVTYP. Your listcat is of a MVS dataset that is one of many backed up to the same ExHPDM tape/stream. Note the volser of **SOV*. You will have to find the mvs dataset name that ExHPDM uses to contain all these backup tapes to get the volser and DEVTYP this actual tape backup dataset is on. It can be found in the ExHPDM sysout or in a SOVLIST. Example: We backup all our DASD to tape with this dataset prefix followed by the volser of the dasd: BACKUP.SYSTEM.volser when I listcat one of these dasd backups I get this. NONVSAM ------- BACKUP.SYSTEM.ADM001.G0126V00 IN-CAT --- CATALOG.MVSICF1.VADM001 HISTORY DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL) CREATION--------2008.033 RELEASE----------------2 EXPIRATION------0000.000 VOLUMES VOLSER------------**SOV* DEVTYPE------X'00000000' FSEQN------------------1 ASSOCIATIONS GDG------BACKUP.SYSTEM.ADM001 ATTRIBUTES This dataset and hundreds of other are contained in a dataset created by ExHPDM. It uses this dataset prefix followed by the ExHPDM stream name and some random string of numbers/characters. BKPHPDM.streamname.random So when I listcat the ExHPDM datset BKPHPDM.WDRPRD.DJAQ0391, this is what I get. NONVSAM ------- BKPHPDM.WDRPRD.DJAQ0391 IN-CAT --- CATALOG.MVSICF1.VADM001 HISTORY DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL) CREATION--------2008.012 RELEASE----------------2 EXPIRATION------0000.000 VOLUMES VOLSER------------A00621 DEVTYPE------X'78048083' FSEQN------------------1 ASSOCIATIONS--------(NULL) ATTRIBUTES Note that the DEVTYP is valid. I hope this has been helpful. Cliff McNeill MD Anderson Cancer Center > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:11:51 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: > LISTCAT QUESTION> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> > I checked the device type of > the IPL volume it is a 3390. However, the dsn is on tape. Any other place I > should look it?> > "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > on 03/31/2008> at 06:30 AM, willie bunter said:> > >Is there a way of finding > out the DEVTYP of "indirectly-cataloged"> >datasets?> > Look at the device > type of the IPL volume.> > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT> > ISO position; see > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.> > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> 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> > > > ---------------------------------> You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> 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> _________________________________________________________________ Get in touch in an instant. Get Windows Live Messenger now. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_getintouch_042008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
