Willie, Regardless of whether you are building and AWS tape or not, when it is IBM Standard Label format, the details of the labels you generate must be as per the IBM specification documented herre (for R12 - later versions of the book exist) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2m330/2.2.3?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0K&DT=20100701110050
For EOF2 there is no block count - that is in EOF1 Did you also see Sam Golobs write up about AWS tapes? http://www.cbttape.org/awstape.htm Mike Wood rmm & tape management consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
