Converting to AWSTAPE is viable regardless of the label and record format. If
MVS can handle the tape at all then it can handle the converted tape.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Presumably he's saying that nobody in his right mind would simply copy the data
on the tape to a byte stream, and that the most obvious way to archive the tape
is to convert it to AWSTAPE format. Once it's in AWSTAPE format, then it's
simple to read it under Hercules, assuming that the labels
Hi Bob,
Might you have ordered the z/OSMF ServerPac? If so, then that book is now a
document called "ServerPac: Product Information For Your Order:
Order Number ", and contains only the appropriate information that used to
be in IYO for your order. That is mostly the old "Appendix A" -
For a small project I had almost 30 years ago (definitely a non-IBM
project) I purchased an Overland Tape unit. It was SCSI attached. I also
had a DVD writer attached to the PC and did a fair bit of coding to make
software that would read a 9-track tape and write the data on DVD.
Included were
Ed Jaffe has a PDF on the Phoenix Software website that explains FLOWASM in
great detail, along with how he uses the IBM structured macros.
Well worth a read.
Rob Scott
Rocket Software
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