In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/10/2007
at 03:01 PM, "Mark H. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Yes, LABEL=(AL) is for ANSI labels, but not used if it's an
>non-labeled or unlabeled tape. The DCB=OPTCD=Q is required in IBM
>JCL (especially if it's NL), when bringing across a tape from a
>foreign NON-IBM system (like UNIX, UNISYS, etc).
No. Not all foreign tapes are ASCII. You need to know what's on the
tape before you code the JCL.
BTW, anybody still have 7-track tapes?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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