Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-26 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I am not a high-level assembler programmer? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer? Paul Gilmartin

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Can this be written in Rexx? IANASP. IANAHLASMP. Ok, you've got me in a corner in a round room... :) What are these acronyms actually? I think the first one is : I Am Not A System Programmer. TIA! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, I noticed that the volser in the HDR1 records did not match the volser in the VOL1 record. OK. IBM doc says this field is defined but not verified by OPEN/CLOSE processing, etc. But I'm working on a utility of m

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:08:20 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >I think you can do all you are trying to do with REXX as long as you are >specifying RECFM=U. You will have some fun handling all of this. > Alas, EXECIO won't do RECFM=U. So I try LMGET. LMGET won't do tape. (Or will it? Am I missing

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer? On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:31:09 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: >I don

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:04:42 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, >I noticed that the volser in the HDR1 records did not match >the volser in the VOL1 record. OK. IBM doc says this field >is defined but not verified by OPEN/CLOSE processing,

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:31:09 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >Bruce Black probably would have known; we all miss him; >I for some volunteer research he did when I asked another >stupid question years ago. > In fact, some years ago Mr. Black recommended FATAR et. al. to me. He even looked us up in

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-23 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 5:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Pedantic Tape Analyzer? Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, I noticed that

Re: Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-23 Thread Stephen Mednick
M Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:05 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Pedantic Tape Analyzer? > > Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, > I noticed that the vo

Pedantic Tape Analyzer?

2009-02-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Lately, examining a dump of a tape output from SAS TAPECOPY, I noticed that the volser in the HDR1 records did not match the volser in the VOL1 record. OK. IBM doc says this field is defined but not verified by OPEN/CLOSE processing, etc. But I'm working on a utility of my own, for complex reaso