Presumably he's saying that nobody in his right mind would simply copy the data on the tape to a byte stream, and that the most obvious way to archive the tape is to convert it to AWSTAPE format. Once it's in AWSTAPE format, then it's simple to read it under Hercules, assuming that the labels and records follow OS/360 conventions.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Radoslaw Skorupka [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 4, 2021 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Re: access to 9-track reel tape drive W dniu 04.06.2021 o 19:48, Paul Gilmartin pisze: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 17:30:38 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >> Assuming the PC-attached SCSI tape drive comes with software to copy data >> from the tape to a disk file without any translation you just have to copy >> the files off the actual tape in binary and then FTP in binary up to your >> favorite mainframe location. FTP is not binary by default but it is very >> easy to do binary transfers (Letter I [eye] command then just PUT pr MPUT). >> > Block boundaries? Sometimes they matter, and RDWs and BDWs. Especially for > RCFM=vBS > such as IEBCOPY PDSU. And LRECL=X. > > AWSTAPE? Your brevity is excellent, but it doesn't explain what and how to do. I just checked CBTtape - there are MVS (z/OS) tools - unapplicable for PC. There is also Windows tool - AWS browser. Also unapplicable. There is another requirement here: to read REAL tape using PC tools. How to read? a) dataset by dataset b) whole tape => AWS tape image I believe there are tools to read tape and understand blocks and tapemarks, and maybe SL labels. Less chance for AWS utility, especially there is such tool working under z/OS. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
