On 2014-04-04, at 08:52, Chase, John wrote: >>> >> Just curious: Does it use the ISPF-style ENQ? > > We didn't get that level of detail in the vendor's reply, but that would seem > to be the most logical choice. > So you're saying they didn't do it that way?
In the past, we needed a protocol for disk storage of magnetic tape images on non-IBM equipment. We engaged a contractor. Evidently neither the contractor nor we did sufficient research; the contractor designed an idiosyncratic format. AWSTAPE would have been the most logical choice. In fairness, the contractor's design supports some features of alternative vendors' drives absent from IBM tape drives, but it could have been a downward-compatible enhancement of AWSTAPE. I wasn't associated with the effort. It might not have mattered; I learned of AWSTAPE only later. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
