Re: BRMS tapes/platform migration

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM SAVSYS/SAVOBJ/SAVLIB format tapes are unique to the iSeries.  I 
don't think any other system can make any sense of them.  Best thing 
about them is being able to SAVLIB and RSTOBJ from the same save.

Transferring data between systems you have to delve into standard 
tape labels (the iSeries SAV* formats are saved on tape in standard 
format with standard labels, but within that standard file is IBM's 
unique save structure).  This means you have to use a CPYF to a tape 
device file.  The system at the other end can read the file and do 
something with it.

Doing something with the file will most likely involve translating 
EBCDIC to ASCII.  Files without packed fields are the easiest to deal 
with.

--Paul E Musselman

PS-- another neat thing about the IBM i is being able to save to a 
SAVF, then SAVSAVFDTA and copy the contents of the SAVF to tape as if 
the backup had originally been to tape!  Due to some of the errors 
you can get with a SAVF I've always felt that a SAVF was pretty much 
a virtual tape device, and that SAVSAVFDTA was pretty much a straight 
copy.

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At 11:55 AM -0400 6/10/17, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> Has anyone converted platforms and had much luck integrating the current
> BRMS tapes with some other platform, lets say LINUX.