This came from a Hardware Manual for TS7700. It documents the sizes of tapes.
To see the full insert go to, a copy and paste loses the table and it looks really bad. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/ts7700/cust/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.storage.ts7740.doc%2Fts7740_media_3592_tape_cartridges.html or tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/mgbz8t8 Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Method to measure usage of a physical tape CA1 records block size and how many blocks. Then you can calculate the size of the file. What type of tape are you using, and are you trying to use tape efficiently, i.e. no wasted space on tape? If so, the IBM Tapetools will be very helpful. ftp://ftp.storsys.ibm.com/tapetool/updates.txt http://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/overview.pdf http://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tapetool/ Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Victor Zhang Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Method to measure usage of a physical tape Hello all, I am using physical tape drive with high capacity which connect via FICON director with CPU,there is no virtual tape storage used, data is directly backed to physical tape drive,my question is how can I determine how much space used for a given physical cartridge? Does TMS software record this? Regards Victor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
