On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:25:22 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] <[email protected]> wrote:
>We are looking to copy data off of 9840A tapes to 9840D tapes. There are a limited number of free slots in our SL8500, so just letting them wither and die is not an option. Neither is boxing them and mounting on demand. Since there are a limited number of datasets to be stacked we need a cost effective solution. > >Does anyone know of a cheap or better yet free stacking mechanism besides Iebgener? > I haven't used it in many years and I don't know anyone else who has either, but if you are running CA-1, I still have TAPESTAK on my web site / CBT file 434. It can utilize COPYCAT or IEBGENER. If you use the IEBGENER option, it creates TMSUPDTE cards for you in order to preserve some of the original information on the new tape (creation job name, date, etc.). Since you say there are a limited number of data sets to be stacked, this could work well for you. It has a "test" mode, so you can run it and see what will happen without actually destroying any of the original tapes / information. If you decide to try it, I'd be interested in hearing your results. Even if you don't have CA-1, you may be able to modify it for other software packages. Even if it takes reading some sort of report output instead of the TMC directly. Regards, 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
