DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)

2010-11-22 Thread Andre Massena
Afternoon all, yes, we are going backwards.. A customer of ours has received a z/OS 1.12 Serverpac on two 3590 cartridges. Cleverly, he does not possess such drives, only 3490 units. Would it be possible to do a DDR tape-to-tape copy using the above as input and Tonnes of 3490's as

Re: DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)

2010-11-22 Thread Kris Buelens
You're out of luck with DDR. From DDR's online help: 3. Copying data from one device to another of the same type. Data may be reordered by cylinder or block when copying it from disk to disk. In order for one tape to be copied to another, the original tape must have been created by

Re: DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)

2010-11-22 Thread Andre Massena
Kris, I did indeed read that piece after I had sent the E-Mail. I am not going to get into Movefile etc. I will have to scratch my head and see what I can do on z/OS. Thank you. Andre En rponse Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com : You're out of luck with DDR. From DDR's online help:

Re: DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)

2010-11-22 Thread David Boyes
You could also use the TAPECOPY utility from the VM Workshop tapes. I'm not sure how it'll handle having the output tape be shorter than the input tape, but at least you wouldn't have to count files.

Re: DDR Tape-to-Tape (3590 = 3490)

2010-11-22 Thread McKown, John
-to-Tape (3590 = 3490) Afternoon all, yes, we are going backwards.. A customer of ours has received a z/OS 1.12 Serverpac on two 3590 cartridges. Cleverly, he does not possess such drives, only 3490 units. Would it be possible to do a DDR tape-to-tape copy using the above