Since some folks here seem to like the current CBT format, maybe I'm
doing something wrong and you can correct me. Here's an example:
So I go to cbttape.org looking for something. I click the CBT option at
the upper left and a list of over 1000 files appears. I'm still not
sure exactly what I'm looking for, but there are some single line
descriptions that may help me decide. So I choose file 44 ASMTOZAP
thinking that might help. A click downloads it to my PC at 500Mbs since
I finally got fiber four weeks ago. Did I mentioned 500Mbs? I can't
even see the download processing anymore. And no more outages like I
had on cable.
Oops, back to the subject: Now I have a zip file. I can click on that
and an XMI file appears. But xmit manager (associated with *.XMI on my
Win 10 box) doesn't seem to work with the temp file zip creates. So I
need to really extract the XMI first, then click to start xmit manager.
Now I have to find the doc member, which can vary. This time it's $DOC
and I can click that in xmit manager and read about the program.
Nope... that's not the program I need. So back I go and do the same for
others.
Am I doing something wrong? This seems like a lot of trouble, which is
probably why I just call Sam if I need something, and he seems to know
where everything is from memory.
On 3/18/2021 4:09 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I would not vote for skipping the tape paradigm for the same reason. Less
often but not zero. I haven't encountered that kind of problem, but having
prior versions to go back to is highly valuable when you need it.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Mike Schwab
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CBT Tape Updates
One function the CBTTAPE numbers did was keeping a historic log of version, so
if the latest didn't work you could go through the various tapes to find an
older one that would work on your system. So please keep a link to each
version by date, unless the author withdraws a particular version because of a
problem.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:28 PM Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:52:19 -0400, Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote:
Skip the "real"/AWS tape. Maybe just cut one only on request.
I agree, another vote for skipping the tape paradigm all together. Just a web
page maybe with the listing of the descriptions from file 001 (without all the
extra tape info). And a link to download each file.
Dana
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