Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

The BUFNO= is only needed if you did _not_ increase the block size of your TMC (available in latest releases, along with other improvements to the TMC including uptime improvements like allowing online extension of a TMC in use by multiple systems.. Thanks, CA! - I'm retired and only

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

Until the tape is overwritten the scratched tapes will still be in the database. On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Hardee, Chuck wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have posted this to the IBM Mainframe and IBM Assembler lists. > > I was wondering if anyone has ever

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

in servers -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 7:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Thanks Russell, I'll go re-read

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Until the tape is overwritten the scratched tapes will still be in the database. On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Hardee

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Chuck, As Level-1 has indicated, you will have to read the entire TMC and do your executed compare (length of the DSN computed up to the .GV00) on every entry within the TMC. There are two ways to access the TMC

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:17:26 +, Hardee, Chuck wrote: >Hello Everyone, > >I have posted this to the IBM Mainframe and IBM Assembler lists. > >I was wondering if anyone has ever written a program to read the CA-1 Tape >Catalog for a generic name? >In a

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

inform the sender and delete all copies. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Here's the obligatory

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

Of Hardee, Chuck Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 5:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Hello Everyone, I have posted this to the IBM Mainframe and IBM Assembler lists. I was wondering if anyone has ever written a program to read the CA-1 Tape Catalog

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 6:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Yes, I know, that is EXACTLY why I want to read the CA-1 tape library. I'm already getting the active cataloged tapes

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

Of McCabe, Ron Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Chuck, If you're familiar with COBOL you can write a COBOL program that will do what you want. We wrote a couple of COBOL programs that read the TMS dataset

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

uot;QSAM record"). > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 5:58 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog > > Thank

Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog

-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of retired mainframer Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog If you are going to use QSAM to read the TMC, remember that while the file is FB with LRECL 340, there are at least three different