Re: creating LODRUN-able CD's from Windows

I recommend getting a package for this - it CAN be done in-house, but there are 
a few gotchas that the vendors have solved. I used to work for Centerfield 
Technology - their CD-ROM Studio was the first (I think) CD premastering 
product out there. It uses tape for the kind of LODRUN thing we are discussing. 
It also has a proprietary method for using SAVFs instead of tape and still have 
LODRUNable CDs. It also has an advanced edition with spanning capability that I 
wrote.  ;-)

Having said that, if you are on V5R3, you can create a virtual optical drive 
and create a *NEW image entry in an image catalog by setting the FROMFILE 
parameter to *NEW. This is a WRITABLE drive. You can make it from 48-16000 meg 
in size, with special values for 650 MB CDs, 2600 MB DVDs, and 4700 MB DVDs. 
What you are writing to is essentially an ISO-compatible optical image that 
will be in the IFS - you should probably specify the name in the TOFILE 
parameter, rather than have one *GEN'd for you. You can copy it down to a PC 
and burn it from hard drive. You can even create multiple image entries in a 
catalog, LODIMGCLG to the virtual drive, and it will span the images, just like 
good old tape. I have not tried restoring from this yet, to see whether it will 
automatically advance to the next volume in a set, but maybe.

And you do not need to use the premastering APIs.

HTH
Vern
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> I know I have some legit DVD-RAM media (dual-sided, even!), I'm just not 
> sure whether the drive in my iSeries is one that supports writing, or 
> whether it's a read-only DVD-RAM drive (which sounds to me like a 
> contradiction in terms). 
> 
> BugBuster's CD Builder product has a 30-day free trial, and the 
> documentation for it looks promising. 
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
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> > Thanks Krish. I just didn't feel like getting out of my chair to go 
> > check. 
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> > We have not had issues with the DVD RAM drives. We use a Verbatim 
> > (Reorder # 94051) 4.7GB Type 2 Single side rewritable DVD in a 
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