RE: TAP Statistics

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al, can you tell how many feet of tape are on a reel?  The other part is
pretty easy.

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of MacWheel99@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:52 AM
To: AS400 & family discussion group
Subject: TAP Statistics


We use some tapes for end fiscal off load random volumes of old traffic
off_line, in which it is not predictable what the size of the old files will
be ... example our ERP keeps inventory transactions that are X months old &
the items with no recent activity keeps last Y transactions, so with steady
business the off loading is even volumes of transactions, but with
fluctuating customer base, the off-loads can vary greatly.

We would like to maximize what goes on one tape without the hassle of
multi-volume.

Is there an easy way in DSPTAP DMPTAP etc. to total up sizes of files there
&
get a human intelligible figure like .... 30 files totalling 2 Gig ... 1/2
gig left on this tape?

I find myself at adding machine multiplying # records times byte sectors to
get total consumption of each file, then adding up each total to get total
tape consumed.  There's gotta be a better way.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02
running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical
sub-assemblies
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