It's been a while since I worked on VSE but IDCAMS is not as quick as DITTO and IDCAMS won't give you the tape control, as you say there is allocation/deallocation. If you can listen to the tape drive you should be able to detect if there is rewind and re-position occurring.
On 1/17/08, Carl Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Ron Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl, > > > > I'll take a WAG that you are rewinding the tape at > > the close of every output > > file on the cartridge, and then repositioning to the > > end of the last file to > > write the next file in sequence. > > First thought that came to mind, but not the case. BTW > this appening when we READ the the files. > > > > Using DFSMSdss logical dump to a single tape dataset > > eliminates that > > problem. > > Not an OPTION. Tape is created on VSE system using > IDCAMS(REPRO) > > > > Ron > > > > > > > > > jobs runs, they seems to run forever. We have > > noticed > > > that the job goes into DW for 3-5 seconds at the > > end > > > of each REPRO process, allocation/deallocation I > > > assume. If indeed this is the case then using > > another > > > program such as ICETOOL should not matter, the > > results > > > should be the same. Is this assumption valid? > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > > instructions, > > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: > > GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at > > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
