Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-03 Thread Wayne T Smith
Thanks to all! I appreciate the useful suggestions from all. Cheers, wayne

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-03 Thread Brian Nielsen
I would start with a non-programming solution: look in your tape catalog to see who wrote/owns each tape. That will either tell you directly the format of the data (eg. the tape was written by VMBACKUP) or where/who to query further for that information. Somewhere there needs to be a record

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-03 Thread Brian Nielsen
I would start with a non-programming solution: check your tape catalog (you do have one, don't you?) for who wrote/owns which tapes. From there you can either know immediately what's on the tape (eg. if it is owned by VMBACKUP) or request that the tape owner tell you what is on it. Somewher

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-01 Thread Fran Hensler
TBROWSE was indeed written by Yossie Silverman but it is now maintained by Rick Bourgeois - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] of Virtual Software Systems, Inc. I now have it on my download page at: http://zvm.sru.edu/~download /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-01 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:42:54 -0400 Wayne T Smith said: >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

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-01 Thread Fran Hensler
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

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-11-01 Thread David Boyes
om: 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,

Re: What's on a tape?

2008-10-31 Thread Thomas Kern
Tapemap does an excellent job of Standard Label tapes and CMS VMFPLC2/TAPE dump datasets. Mount each tape, map it, rename the listing with the tape number. /Tom Kern Wayne T Smith wrote: > I've been asked to figure out what we have in our inventory of VM and > VSE tapes, in preparation for moving

What's on a tape?

2008-10-31 Thread Wayne T Smith
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