On Tuesday, 01/20/2009 at 12:35 EST, "Schuh, Richard" <rsc...@visa.com> wrote: > Shouldn't someone have to initialize the new tapes before they are used? > They at least need a dummy header label before there is an EOF.
The problem is that the VTS apparently failed to write the tape mark after it wrote the header label group. As with a real tape, they should be signalling EOT when you try to read past the last data written. FSF looks for a tape mark. If there isn't one on the tape and it goes to EOT, then you'll get an I/O error. Since MOVEFILE is treating the tape as non-labeled, it doesn't care whether it hits EOT or a EOF (TM). Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
