On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:25:33 -0500, Mike Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Use of MTL is also an option. It avoids JCL changes, ICF Catalog changes, >and makes it easy to get volumes mounted on suitable drives. > Yes, a Manual Tape Library would be a good answer but it is a heck of a lot of work to setup compared to say the ICF3490 catalog conversion program in file 172 of the CBT tape. I used that to process all our catalogs in one go when we insourced from a 3480 site to our own 3490 site. It seems a bit drastic to update a catalog directly, but as long as you do it without anything else running it should be safe enough. I believe that other people have used this program successfully, too. I setup an MTL to handle the conversion the other way - from real 3490 to FSI's FakeTape(tm) 3480 drives, it's probably the only way to do that. The good folks on IBM-MAIN helped me with that as well. Nowadays I am looking to get off 3490 - it's old technology. I am converting some tapes to AWS format in preparation for whatever may be coming down the road - possibly a Virtual Tape device from Universal Software. (That's is a virtual 3490, though). Look to the future, but good luck anyway. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
