I've been asked to figure out what we have in our inventory of VM and
VSE tapes, in preparation for moving to "new" drives/media.
I'm expecting to write a PIPE that will do the required summary, more or
less iterating to a final solution by operators will be able to use on
our inventory of a few thousand tapes.
Some of the expected formats include CMS and VSE labeled, unlabeled
created mostly here, but with some that may have been created elsewhere.
CMS formats include "standard" blocked & unblocked", tape, vmfplc2, and
various other CMS "TAPE" command local formats such as very old
"Perkin-Elmer" compressed format and other 800-byte block file systems.
In addition, I'll be recognizing specific formats such as SPSS system
files, SPTAPE, etc.
Does anyone have a starting point I might use in place of a
bigger-than-I-want-project? ;-)
cheers, wayne
U Maine System
(6 or 7 of 8 to 10 years into dismantling our VM system)
