Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-07 Thread Hal Merritt
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 9:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems Hal I have to agree. The data written to the ATL on FICON channels will be CKD structure which is encapsulated into SCSI FBA

Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-07 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-04-07 19:38, Hal Merritt pisze: I was looking only at your past point: .. convert each field to ASCII and appropriate numeric formats. How would you know where each field was and what it was? Without the orignal programs, I'd say just about impossible. IMHO the problem is

Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-07 Thread Ron Hawkins
Radoslaw, Nice catch. I was reading ATL and thinking TMM. Ron Connecting hardware or interpreting CKD (it's tape, I know) data on PC could be a method. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-06 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Luckily this required info is not for our shop, another MF is biting the dust here in the north east. The powers that be are concerned about accessing data that resides in a VTS/ATL device once the plug is pulled on the MF, should there be a need to. Is there any software/hardware product that

Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-06 Thread McKown, John
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems Luckily this required info is not for our shop, another MF is biting the dust here in the north east. The powers

Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-06 Thread Gibney, Dave
] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems Depends on the device. Our ATL is connected via SCSI to a Wintel server as well as via Ficon to our z. The individual drives within the ATL

Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-06 Thread Hal Merritt
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems Luckily this required info is not for our shop, another MF is biting the dust here in the north east. The powers

Re: Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems

2011-04-06 Thread Ron Hawkins
] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Accessing MF Data From Distributed Systems Short answer: most likely no. You might could 'access' the data, but would have little hope of making any sense of it. I'd take a look