Bruce, 2) you can get the file size information from tape management system just as you get the data set name ??
Mike Wood RMM Development On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:58:49 -0400, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... >Innovation's tape utility FATAR has interfaces to the popular TMSs to >get the full dataset name if available, but it doesn't support tape to >disk copy. > >2) how big to allocate the disk file. The tape header records give no >clue as to the size of the tape datasets, 1 record, a million records, >or whatever. > >-- >Bruce A. Black >Senior Software Developer for FDR >Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 >personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

