Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, I noticed that the volser in the HDR1 records did not match the volser in the VOL1 record. OK. IBM doc says this field is defined but not verified by OPEN/CLOSE processing, etc.
But I'm working on a utility of my own, for complex reasons. I'd like to do better than SAS. How can I verify the result? Is there a utility to which I could pass a (putatively) standard labeled tape, such as that output from SAS TAPECOPY which would report loud and clear on irregularities such as the volser mismatch, possible block count errors in trailer labels, all such? Bruce Black probably would have known; we all miss him; I for some volunteer research he did when I asked another stupid question years ago. Thanks, 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
