CBT Tape Question

2007-11-25 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I was just trying to look at a couple of files on the CBT tape. Not having a mainframe available to download to, I was curious if anyone had written a utility to translate a .XMI file to something I could look at on the PC. Translating to .txt wold be great. Some of the files on CBT have doc

Re: CBT Tape Question

2007-11-25 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/25/2007 1:19:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that are readable on the PC, but many don't. Obviously, I could do nothing with a load module file, but it would be nice to look at the source and doc files, at least until I find a job and can

Re: CBT Tape Question

2007-11-25 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Ed, Thanks. I never saw that before. I'm sure there was discussion about XMIT Manager before, but I forgot. I downloaded it, but now its time to go play catch with a football with my son, who's going back to Korea tomorrow. I'll try using it later. Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems

Re: CBT Tape Question

2007-11-25 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:22:30 EST, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... look down the left hand side for Xmit manager? ... XmitManager is a great little tool, but has one small restriction: it doesn't handle XMITed PDSEs very well. For the members it can read it tacks on a couple extra

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Bill Wilkie
that helps Bill From: Daniel McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Tape Question Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:48:16 -0500 While wrapping up our DR, my boss dumped his files to a 3590-E tape. The only tape drives

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip-- The 813-04 abend is due to the dsname in your jcl not matching the dsname on the tape. You either have to specify the dsname in the jcl to match the tape and treat it as a SL tape, or you can use LABEL=(2,BLP) to just process the data(skipping

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Bill Wilkie
Subject: Re: Tape Question Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:57:55 -0500 -snip-- The 813-04 abend is due to the dsname in your jcl not matching the dsname on the tape. You either have to specify the dsname in the jcl to match the tape and treat it as a SL tape, or you

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:58:46 EDT, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/20/2007 8:48:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: treating it as an unlabeled (external) tape. He is trying to restore the tape and we keep getting 813-04 errors. We're open to

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:57:55 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: -snip-- To determine the internal label and dsn, you can use a tape map program, if one is available or you can use IEBGENER as follows: //STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Sample
snip Keep in mind that if the fully qualified dsname is longer than 17 bytes, you will only see the last 17 bytes of it in the tape hdr, but you still need the full name in your JCL. /snip Actually, you don't need the full name in your JCL. You can use the 17 byte name if it is a valid

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 9/20/2007 1:27:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the way in CA's TMS? Or are 99000 and 98000 the same in both? 99000 = Catlg control, 98000 = bypass tape mgt. I thought they were the same, but stuff changes as do my optics.

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread J R
File 1 is the volume label, file 2 is the 1st data set label. Bill had it right. Nope! VOL1 and the first HDR1 are both in file 1. From: Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Tape Question Date: Thu

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip-- File 1 is the volume label, file 2 is the 1st data set label. Bill had it right. ---unsnip Someone needs to review the Tape Labels publication.. BTDT

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:59:54 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: -snip-- File 1 is the volume label, file 2 is the 1st data set label. Bill had it right. ---unsnip Someone needs to review the Tape Labels

3590 Tape question

2005-09-13 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, Does anyone know if a 3590E drive can write tapes that can be read on a 3590B drive. Can this we done using a parameter in JCL? TIA Gadi -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: 3590 Tape question

2005-09-13 Thread Carlos A Bodra
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: 3590 Tape question Hi, Does anyone know if a 3590E drive can write tapes that can be read on a 3590B drive

Re: 3590 Tape question

2005-09-13 Thread R.S.
גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if a 3590E drive can write tapes that can be read on a 3590B drive. Can this we done using a parameter in JCL? AFAIK no. For sure 3590B drive can write tapes for reading in 3590E. However 3590E can only read such tapes. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,