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
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
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Subject: What's on a tape?
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
might need. Contact me offlist
if you can't find a copy.
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I've been asked
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 by
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
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 by operators will be able to use on
our inventory of a
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
