Hello: I have an oldie but a goodie. One of our user areas sent us 9 3420 tapes today, and some of them appear to be 800 BPI. When I run tape map against the tape I get the data in the attachment.
I am trying to read these files on a 3420 tape drive, and when I put the density (DEN=2) into my JCL I get a 413-24 abend. I've tried various combinations and I cannot seem to get these old tapes to read, and without density IEBGENER gets a RC=12 for conflicting DCB info. I've also tried BLP and specifying the DCB parms directly, and still no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can possibly get this to read on our tape drives, or is there a hardware setting on a 3420 that will make this possible? I looked in the archives and did not find anything specific about this, and this is a little before my time. Thanks Todd Burrell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
1VOL=007893 TAPE ANALYSIS PROGRAM (T A P E M A P) V2.1 TUESDAY MAY 06, 2008 (08.127) 15:09:34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RELOAD FILE PSWD INFO BLOCK BLOCK LNTH TOTL CREATOR FORMAT SEQ# DATASET NAME REQD C-DATE E-DATE SOURCE RECFM LRECL SIZE COUNT DEN TRT (FT) LNTH JOBNAME/STEPNAME ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0 PW.PREV.ELPH . 00.000 LABELS S A CEN C DAT 95 T R INC 2 SCAN F 1499 95 1600 13 13 - *** EOV *** -***** ONE OR MORE FILES HAVE DENSITY INDICATED INCORRECTLY IN LABELS. ALL FILES ARE WRITTEN AT 800 BPI ***** + 800 + 800 0NOTE: LENGTH(S) ARE COMPUTED, (BASED ON BLKSIZE, BLKCOUNT, AND DENSITY), AND ARE THEREFORE ONLY APPROXIMATE.