What about using TAPEMAP from CBT file 299 to see the characteristics of the tape, then read it BLP and copy it into a disk file to clean up.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 8:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE? On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:42:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: >This will deblock a BLOCKTAP tape into its original format: > PIPE tape | deblock vb | > tape outfile a if you have CMS Pipelines >available. > Couldn't one then just FILEDEF ... RECFM VB and read it directly? (How could one have CMS but not have Pipelines? Really old OS?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
