The first physical file on a standard labeled tape is the label. It is lrecl=blksize=80. The first record is the VOL1 header. The second record is the HDR1, which describes file 2 on the tape. The second physical file on the tape is the first user file.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rafa Pereira > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:20 PM > > John Kelly wrote: > > >Been a while since I did stand alone DSS restores. I see that DSS now has > >a FILE parameter which can specify the file number from the beginning of > >the tape. I would assume the number is tape marks, ie with standard label > >tape file 1 would be FILE(2). Does anyone know, rather than guess like I > >did? > > IIRC, with standard label tapes, the value in the FILE parameter corresponds > to the file sequence number of the dataset within the tape. So, the first > dataset in the tape would be FILE(1), which is the default. > > Regards. > > Rafa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
