On 3/12/07, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Like PIPEDDR, which does use "trackread" & "trackwrite" but doesn't write to tape or restore to a larger minidisk.
I suppose the PIPEDDR adds some additional checks to protect your own feet. But the basic stages add no such restrictions. You can certainly write your data to a tape with CMS Pipelines, and if you look at a few of your CKDVRST tapes you can probably reverse engineer it and have the pipeline restore those files. For copying local disks track by track the function is close to DDR (but probably a bit easier to incorporate in an existing program). With a FORMAT RECOMP you can have CMS fix up after copying to a larger disk.
It would help if IBM released the source code to these programs when their internal support retires. Or remove them from the public offering.
I ensure you many would get in trouble if IBM would withdraw products once the author retires or leaves the company ;-) If the legal folks (and programmers) at IBM had any fear about such obligations, we would never have those download pages in the first place. But it certainly makes sense to think about your dependency such things if you can. Frequently I find CMS Pipelines helpful to put things together again when something breaks. Rob
