RE: How do I read a UNIX-created Ultrium-3 tape on our V5R2 system?

I usually do a DSPTAP DATA(*LABELS) to get the record length for the
file(s) and the parms for a CPYFRMTAP.  Then I create a physical file --
CRTPF RCDLEN(xxx) and perform the CPYFRMTAP.  As Rob has noted, if
they've performed some sort of proprietary backup you're hosed.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: How do I read a UNIX-created Ultrium-3 tape on our V5R2
system?

Do you have the tape?

If so, then DSPTAP is a good place to start.  You can probably kiss all
of 
the RST* commands good bye.  There are options to read and write
directly 
to tape from RPG.

But, ideally, I'd find out what utility they used to create the tape on 
the Unix box, find a like Unix box, and go from there.  It's one thing
if 
they wrote a classical sequential file that looks like punched cards on 
tape.  It's quite another if they used Tivoli Storage Manager to store 
each changed part of a file into multiple data sets - compressed.

Rob Berendt