Check out AWSTAPE and see if that helps.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:00:58 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:05:41 -0700, Andrew N Wilt wrote: > >> I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to do that. >> >>IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 07/05/2007 >>11:28:50 AM: >> >>> We've had a number of small DSS DUMP files written to tape that I want to >>> move to DISK. Unfortunately, it seems that the dump files on tape get >>> >>> Tom Chicklon >>> >This is an instance of a more general problem: > >To create on disk (preferably stream rather than CKD) an image >of a tape suitable for transmission by FTP BINARY even to a >non-IBM system, and from there recreating the original tape >with all labels and data sets intact. > >CBT, perhaps? SAS? FATAR? > >Didn't someone recently mention here a vendor who distributes >software via network in such an image format, along with a >utility to create a tape for SMP/E installation? > >Alas, for me this is more academic than I'd like: after a recent >corporate acquisition we've outsourced our media production to >be done on squatty boxen, after outsourcing the squatty box >software development to a third entity. To make this work, I'd >need to reverse engineer (unless specs are available) the >squatty box internal format. Still, I'd like to be able to >bypass a FedEx step in the general case as we now can only for >LABEL=(nn,NL),RECFM=FB,... > >-- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
