Using the TMC gives you the a calculated value as to the amount of data stored. Since this does not take into account compression it does not show the amount of physical tape cartridge consumed. Maybe this is in the IBM tools, but I am not familiar with them
Carl Swanson Mobile:215.688.1459 Email: carl.swans...@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 9:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Method to measure usage of a physical tape CA1 records block size and how many blocks. Then you can calculate the size of the file. What type of tape are you using, and are you trying to use tape efficiently, i.e. no wasted space on tape? If so, the IBM Tapetools will be very helpful. ftp://ftp.storsys.ibm.com/tapetool/updates.txt http://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/overview.pdf http://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/ Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Victor Zhang Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 5:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Method to measure usage of a physical tape Hello all, I am using physical tape drive with high capacity which connect via FICON director with CPU,there is no virtual tape storage used, data is directly backed to physical tape drive,my question is how can I determine how much space used for a given physical cartridge? Does TMS software record this? Regards Victor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
