Yes, there are a number of hardware connection options -- and software that serves in the emulation of the physical 3480 (et al) tape drive. This works fine when MVS is in the picture (as on a FLEX system) since all of MVS's IOS and access method code is there and being used. But say I want to read MVS tapes from a program running under Windows or PC-Linux. Do I need to write all of the code to interpret and validate volume and dataset labels, high-speed positioning, etc. myself?
At 01:09 PM 3/22/2007, Charles Mills wrote: >It has become pretty common due to the prevalence of PC-based "mainframes" >such as the FLEX. You can buy SCSI-attached mainframe-style tape drives from >dealers, such as T3 and Cornerstone. I think about $5000 and up depending on >new/used, model of tape, auto-loaders, etc. The tape drives typically come >with software that does a "typical" job of handling mainframe tape labels. >By "typical" I mean typical for cross-platform software where the author was >clearly not part of the "culture" of the platform he or she was attempting >to "emulate" (for want of a better word). ================================================== Art Celestini Celestini Development Services Phone: 201-670-1674 Wyckoff, NJ ============= http://celestini.com ============= Mail sent to the "From" address used in this post will be rejected by our server. Please send off- list email to: ibmmain<at-sign>celestini<dot>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
