TAPEMAP still works for showing you the structure/content of a tape, even 3590s. It does not provide correct numbers for the number of FEET in a dataset etc and has not since the advent of 3480 cartridges.
If people want a VMARC of the TAPEMAP module and helpcms, please contact me offline. /Tom Kern /301-903-2211 On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:45:38 -0500, Stephen Frazier <ste...@doc.state.ok.u s> wrote: >I used to have a utility from some user group called TAPEMAP that would >scan a tape and tell how many tapemarks were on a tape and where they >were in feet from the beginning reflector strip. It also told you haw >many blocks of data were recorded between each tapemark and the size of >the largest block. There were some other things on the report but I >don't remember what they were. The utility would not work on tape >cartages just reel tapes. On rare occasions I wish I had it to find what >is on a tape. If anyone updated it to work with newer tapes it would be >what you need to get started on finding the data. > >Now, I just mount the tape on VSE and use interactive DITTO to look at >unknown tapes. > >> > >> FWIW, the PSP tape shares a common format with MVS and starts with a t ape >> > mark, then the file in "MOVEFILE" format, then (I think) another TM. >> > That's why the EOT option is important on VMFPLC2 SCAN. >> > >> >> Believe me, Sir, I tried all of the above! The error started with FSF >> and Movefile and continued with VMFPLC2 (with and without (EOT) ... >-- > >Stephen Frazier >Information Technology Unit >Oklahoma Department of Corrections >3400 Martin Luther King >Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 >Tel.: (405) 425-2549 >Fax: (405) 425-2554 >Pager: (405) 690-1828 >email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us
