Back in the 70's & 80's we had a program to "CLIP" a DASD volume to simply change the label (before ICKDSF was available).
When a tape lead was crunched around the capstan we would simply splice in a NEW lead. As soon as that tape had completed being used for the current job we quickly took it to support to be duplicated to a new tape with a NON-spliced lead. The spliced tape had the temporary lead cut off, a new reflector tape was added to the appropriate location and the volume was re-initialized. An exciting time for the "library support" people. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
