[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
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
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.
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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
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[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
] 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
[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
] 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
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