Re: BRMS tapes/platform migration

Doctor, archived files from over the years. Once the new system is go
live, still might need to retrieve data from the old system. Jim, archival
pretty much, but... would you have any information on the lab services.
What I was really hoping for was that you could possibly hook up a EMC VTL
to LINUX, they there would be some tool available(IBM or OpenSource) that
could be utilized on some capacity which up until now I have not been able
to locate).

Jim,

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul,

You can format a tape as ASCII and use it as a save on IBM i to AIX and
back. BRMS can handle those saves quite well. The return trip would have
to be native save/restore command since BRMS would not know about he
contents of those tapes.

Jim Oberholtzer
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On Jun 10, 2017, at 2:18 PM, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

.


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.

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