Paul, I'm sure my dear friend Bruce Black would have pitched in with a plug for FATS/FATAR/FATSCOPY :-).
Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia Asia/Pacific representatives for Innovation Data Processing, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Pedantic Tape Analyzer? > > 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
