RE: Writing Journal Receivers directly to tape

Evan,

IIRC, we did this at a bank some time back - but we weren't writing
Journal Receiver entries, we were writing images of the journal receiver
entries.

There was a program that did a RCVJRNE and plucked the entries real
time, and then wrote the data directly to tape via an OVRTAPF to the
QTAPE file.  The image on the tape was a PF, not a JRNRCVE, but it
worked for them.  The program has to be smart enough to wait for
operators when a tape filled up and had to be changed - I don't recall
how that was handled.

Incidentally, this system replaced a system that had done a CHGJRN every
hour and streamed the old receiver off to tape.  In both cases, here was
a tape on a dedicated tape drive all day long.

HTH,

jte


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:41 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Writing Journal Receivers directly to tape
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I seem to remember way back on the System/38 writing
> journal
> receivers out to tape for recovery purposes. What I can't
> remember is
> how this was set up.
> 
> Is it possible (as my memory is telling me) to write
> journal entries
> directly to tape, or do I need to regularly change
> receivers and then
> save them to tape as the manual indicates.
> 
> I'm thinking the latter of the two options is probably
> right, but I'm
> wondering about what other options might exist (and am
> curious about
> what it is I can't quite remember). Remote journaling is
> not an
> option in this case.
> 
> Regards
> Evan Harris
> 
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