RE: tape

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

DEBE   did  come  before Ditto.   Super  tools on the  mainframes.

At 07:37 PM 9/23/2004, Don wrote:


> 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.
> > >
> > >Rob Berendt
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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.
> > >
> > >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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