On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:08:20 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >I think you can do all you are trying to do with REXX as long as you are >specifying RECFM=U. You will have some fun handling all of this. > Alas, EXECIO won't do RECFM=U. So I try LMGET. LMGET won't do tape. (Or will it? Am I missing something? I think I'll ask on ISPF-L.) So I'm REPROing the RECFM=U, dataset by dataset, to DASD and reading that with LMGET. Silicon is cheaper than carbon.
>It almost sounds like you are trying to write part of DITTO. > Close. We're dealing with a media replication vendor who uses an idiosyncratic tape image format concocted by a contractor. (*Our* contractor! I wish I had been in the loop at the specification phase and had specified AWSTAPE. Too late; money under the bridge.) Both we and the vendor would like to short circuit delivery of tape masters by express, so I'm trying to reverse-engineer the archive format. -- 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
