On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 16:51:12 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >But it struck me that what you may be asking for is the ability to >copy an entire tape -- labels and all -- to an AWS file. That is, to >make a portable image of a whole existing real tape. I don't know if >there's a mainframe tool to do that, but there is a standalone >tapecopy.exe available with the Hercules project to run on a UNIX-type >machine that can copy in either direction between real (reel - heh) >and AWS. I used it to copy most of my collection of tapes from the >1970s through early 1990s using a SCSI-attached drive on a Linux PC. > >A mainframe (i.e. z/OS) tool would be a combination of one of the >existing tape mapping programs with the trivial code that creates the >AWS file control blocks. Probably someone's done it already. > >Ah - yes... It's in the /util directory of the Hercules source. >Download http://downloads.hercules-390.eu/hercules-3.11.zip and >extract tapeconv.jcl . This contains the source code and surrounding >JCL to build and execute it. > Or, if it's more accessible to you, I believe CMS Pipelines has an AWSTAPE stage.
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