mikeg@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Gionfriddo) (11/16/87)
I am looking for some utility software that can either write tapes on an IBM MVS System that are readable under VMS or a utility that can read labelled MVS tapes. Ideally, the utility would work with ANSI labelled tapes. This utility must also be able to label and write multiple volume sets. Does anything like this exist? Please send me mail if you have information about public domain or commercial packages. If there is enough interest I will summarize to the net. Thanks in advance! -- |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| || Mike Gionfriddo || mikeg@brs.com || Umm, my favorite soup, || || (518) 783-1161 || ihnp4!dartvax!brspyr1 || Cream of Nowhere || ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
chuck@felix.UUCP (Chuck Vertrees) (11/21/87)
In article <2193@brspyr1.BRS.Com> mikeg@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Gionfriddo) writes: > >I am looking for some utility software that can either write tapes on an >IBM MVS System that are readable under VMS or a utility that can read >labelled MVS tapes. Ideally, the utility would work with ANSI labelled >tapes. This utility must also be able to label and write multiple >volume sets. Does anything like this exist? ... I know nothing about the IBM world as regards to tape writing, but VMS already reads and writes ANSI standard labeled tapes. The default way VMS treats tapes is to assume that they are ANSI labeled. You have to do special things to treat it differently. Possibly you are more interested in translating EBCDIC to ASCII and back. If this is the case, you simply treat the EBCDIC tape as a foreign tape. In about 15 minutes you can write a simple program to translate between the two code systems using the built-in library functions.
Walter_A_Schwarz@cup.portal.com (11/25/87)
Chuck, Your method of a simple ebcdic to ascii conversion works great on single volume files. But you have to deal with EOV's and EOF's on multi-reel data files.