There are a nice set of STORAGE TOOLS on IBM website. They are free and do a good job at identifying tape stuff, like BLKSIZE under utilization, Tape Length, etc...
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/ Lizette > Subject: What to use to find tape utilization? > > We need to determine the utilization of a 3592 tape. What program or utility > do people use to determine tape utilization? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html