Well, if your Linux disks are formatted with the CDL, it's supposed to work. I can see that the datasets might look empty from the OS/390 side, but you should be able to dump them. Hmm. I'd better have a look at those tapes...
-- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates RIP ER 1900-2002 GSTQ > So DFDSS works fine? When our dasd guy tried it on a linux > volume, the > program would return with a condition code 0... but after seconds (not > 20 minutes or so). In MVS the dataset would show up, for example, > LINUX.VOX6BC2.PART0001.NEW with all of its tracks allocated, > but viewing > the file would result in a message saying that the file was > empty, which > is why he thought DFDSS finished so quickly. So I resorted > to OFFLINDR > which works great, but if DFDSS will also work then he'd > prefer to use that. > > Am I the only one who DFDSS didn't work for? I'm using a 2.4 kernel, > btw, in an LPAR. > > ~ Daniel >
