On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:15:28 -0700, Andrew N Wilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello Errol, > I hope this can allay your fears. The default tape blocksize of 64k >was done in 1988 in APAR PL18193. Your DR site should be able to read >DFSMSdss dump tapes with that block size. What OA13742 did was to >cause the block size that we were using to be put into the tape label where >only 0 was put into the tape label before. If your DR site has a level of >z/OS >that is out of support, you may not have an Open/Close/End-of-Volume >(O/C/EOV) >APAR (OA09868) that allows an open to be performed against a tape with >a blocksize greater than 32K by a DFSMSdss that does not have OA13742 >applied. > > If you can't apply those APARs, then I think your idea of ADRUIXIT >should work. One small thing with your assembler below is that I believe >you need to return the value 4 to indicate that you changed the parameters. >In your example, I think you are returning the value 2. > >Thanks, > > Andrew Wilt > IBM DFSMSdss Architecture/Development > Tucson, Arizona > > Thanks Andrew and to others that replied. I have applied the exit (with ret code 4) and it works. Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
