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

Try DMPTAP - it is a pretty raw read of the tape. You can specify only tape 
headers and trailers or the whole blame thing. It goes to a spooled file. You 
can tell it that you are working with ASCII data, which is probably the case 
here.

Things like block length, record length, record block format, and buffer offset 
should be in a header (HDR2 according to the tape programming manual).

Let us know what happens.

Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Tom" <tomh5480@xxxxxxxxx> 

> The DSPTAP command shows that the type is *NL, density is *ULTRIUM2 - and 
> everything else as blanks. 
> 
> Sounds like a problem... 
> 
> Tom 
> 
> "Jim Damato" 
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> >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 
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> > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:25 PM 
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> > 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 
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> > How do I read a UNIX-created Ultrium-3 tape on our V5R2 system? 
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> > Customer would like for us to recover some data from their 
> > Unix-formatted 
> > Ultrium-2 tape. We have an Ultrium-3 tape drive, but I have no idea 
> > where 
> > 
> > to start. 
> > 
> > What do I need to get going on this little project? 
> > 
> > Tom 
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