Can the tape be read with DITTO ?  IIRC, ditto is now shipped with z/OS.

On 5/6/08, Todd Burrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> 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.
>
>
>


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