TAPEMAP. Should be available on any of the VM Workshop tapes; won't report density correctly on post-3490 drives, but will produce a summary report of just about everything else you might need. Contact me offlist if you can't find a copy.
> -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Wayne T Smith > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 5:43 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: What's on a tape? > > 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)
