On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:04:42 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>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? > It's been a long time since I had to use it, but doesn't Sun/STK already have a utility called OSTAPE or OSUTIL that can do at least some of this? Or is that what you are trying to enhance? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
