RE: tape

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And if DITTO doesn't work, use DEBE ....

Don in DC

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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Glenn Ericson wrote:

> If   life gets too difficult  coping tape to a  Mainframe there is a
> Mainframe Utility called DITTO  and it pretty much  copies anything.
>
> At 05:05 PM 9/23/2004, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >As others pointed out.  You could either CPYTOTAP/CPYFRMTAP or your could
> >open it directly from RPG using OVRTAPF.  Since disk isn't quite the issue
> >anymore I think I'd go with the former.
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> > > I am sure it can be done.  Been YEARS since I played with
> > > this, but we did have programs that would read tape files
> > > directly from RPG on our iSeries.
> > >  Back when disk was very limited on the old S/36 this
> > > capability was one of my arguments to management for getting
> > > an AS/400.
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> >I did it years ago exchanging tapes with SuperValu.  The details I
> >remember
> >were having to use CPYTOTAP and CPYFRMTAP instead of SAVxxx and RSTxxx.
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