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1. Re: SAVLIB tape copy and/or converting tape backup to SAVF
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2. Re: Virtual Tape (rob@xxxxxxxxx)
3. RE: Virtual Tape (Bruce Barrett)
4. RE: Virtual Tape (Bruce Barrett)
5. Re: SAVLIB tape copy and/or converting tape backup to SAVF
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7. Can UPDATE statement do something like this... (Dave Odom)
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message: 1
date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:12:16 -0400
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: SAVLIB tape copy and/or converting tape backup to SAVF
David,
It's not the Nova Exchange. It's never a save file on the
tape. If you do a SAVLIB to tape then you have to do a
RSTLIB to get it back from the tape. Unless, you did a
SAVLIB, and one of those things in the library was a save
file. Then what you might be trying to do is a RSTOBJ of
just that save file saved with SAVLIB.
What error are you getting with RSTLIB and/or RSTOBJ?
I do not think that you can do a CPYFRMTAP from a tape file
to an existing save file unless that save file was copied to
the tape with CPYTOTAP, or your pretty talented and figured
out how to use RPG or something to read objects and write it
to tape in the same byte structure as a save file.
But in general, the format of a file on tape created with
SAVLIB is not going to match the format of a save file.
If it is that mangled and is that vital, you could try either
reading the file directly from a HLL like RPG or try various
incantations of CPYFRMTAP to some sort of file layout. Then
read that file with some HLL and write out to the object you desire.
Rob Berendt
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SAVLIB tape copy and/or converting tape backup to SAVF
A friend of mine has a savlib backup tape that he converted
from one media
type to SLR5 using a PC tape copying gizmo called
NovaExchange. I can see
that the library is there, but something is different about
the tape such
that the AS400 doesn't think it's a save file.
I have tried a few things like doing a CPYFRMTAP as a tape
file to see if
I could mangle the thing into a SAVF. I can DSPPFM the
copied file and
see things that LOOK like a savf might, but no dice.
The tape is ebcdic. The block size is 32768. The record
length of the
converted tape is not 0 as it should be, but 32768.
A 'save file' has a record length of 528...
I'm just scratching the surface here. Has anyone ever
offloaded a savlib
backup and mangled it into a save file?
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message: 2
date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:15:18 -0400
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Virtual Tape
Having used virtual optical I didn't find virtual tape all that hard.
We've got some pretty kicking tape drives so virtual tape was
actually
slower for us.
Not sure if you can use a SAN. Shouldn't be that hard to try
though. Try
mounting an IFS directory to that SAN and then configuring
that directory
to the virtual tape.
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Virtual tape is a bitch to learn, and it may or may not improve
performance. (Likely it will if going to an inactive IASP.)
The is a TAA Tool.
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date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:15:38 -0700
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subject: RE: Virtual Tape
I will check out TAA Tool.
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Subject: Re: Virtual Tape
Virtual tape is a bitch to learn, and it may or may not improve
performance. (Likely it will if going to an inactive IASP.)
The is a TAA Tool.
Al
Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
400>390
"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads
Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax
http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com
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date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:19:00 -0700
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subject: RE: Virtual Tape
Thanks for the information.
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Subject: Re: Virtual Tape
Having used virtual optical I didn't find virtual tape all that hard.
We've got some pretty kicking tape drives so virtual tape was
actually
slower for us.
Not sure if you can use a SAN. Shouldn't be that hard to try though.
Try
mounting an IFS directory to that SAN and then configuring that
directory
to the virtual tape.
Rob Berendt
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Virtual tape is a bitch to learn, and it may or may not improve
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The is a TAA Tool.
Al
Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
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"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads
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914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax
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message: 5
date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:57:09 -0500
from: CRPence <crp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: SAVLIB tape copy and/or converting tape backup to SAVF
Apologies if this is already understood, such that maybe I have
misunderstood the given. But.... A copied tape [to new media] of a
SAVLIB will remain a SAVLIB. A SAVLIB standard label file is
restored
from tape by a request to RSTLIB; that *SL file is not a /save file/.
The ability to "see that the library is there" would seem to
suggest a
DSPTAP request showed the label as the library name.? The DSPTAP
information should also indicate the command that was used to
create the
file on the tape was a SAVLIB. Has the request to perform a RSTLIB
actually been attempted?
Perhaps my confusion is that the words "save file"
referred both to
the file on tape and a *FILE object with attribute SAVF.? If
so, then
presumably the error was that a RSTLIB request indicates that
the media
was not a valid save format, rather than having indicated
that the media
was not a /save file/. In this case the /file/ on the media,
with the
library name as the /label/ must be a standard label file
with its data
written in the *SAVRST format. If the copy of the tape to alternate
media had copied the data records and changed the [block
and/or] record
length, but not also having reformatted the records to match the new
length, or the file is no longer *SL, then I believe that
would result
in such an error.
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David C. Shea wrote:
A friend of mine has a savlib backup tape that he convertedfrom one media type to SLR5 using a PC tape copying gizmo
called NovaExchange. I can see that the library is there,
but something is different about the tape such that the AS400
doesn't think it's a save file.
file to see if I could mangle the thing into a SAVF. I can
I have tried a few things like doing a CPYFRMTAP as a tape
DSPPFM the copied file and see things that LOOK like a savf
might, but no dice.
length of the converted tape is not 0 as it should be, but 32768.
The tape is ebcdic. The block size is 32768. The record
offloaded a savlib backup and mangled it into a save file?
A 'save file' has a record length of 528...
I'm just scratching the surface here. Has anyone ever
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message: 6
date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:31:07 -0700
from: Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: SAVLIB tape copy and/or converting tape backup to SAVF
It would be hard to mangle it into a savf, because savf's
have checksums
in each 528-byte record (512 bytes data, 4 byte binary RRN,
and 12 byte
checksum). There are no checksums on tape, so you'd have to calculate
them yourself--which is not impossible (a REXX pgm to do it was once
posted in the MI400 list) but it's not trivial.
I think it would be easier to get the file into a physical file in the
format used by the DUPTAPIN TAATOOL, then use the DUPTAPOUT
TAATOOL (or
equivalent) to write that to tape in legitimate *SAVRST format. Then
you could restore normally.
DUPTAPIN copies the tape file into a physical file with a 32,762-byte
record length, which has a 2-byte binary block length,
followed by up to
32,760 bytes of the tape block data. The original TAATOOLs used PL/I
pgms to read and write the tape, but there are RPG IV replacements for
them here: (thanks Martin!)
http://dbg400.net/download/duptap.txt
(For a chuckle, they're also here:)
http://www.splash.it/computer/as400/AS400/DUPTAP.txt.htm
A couple of questions:
1. How big is the file? If it's small enough to email, you
could email
it to me and I'll try to extract the library. Though if it contains
proprietary data, you might not want to send it to a stranger :-)
2. Can you post what you see when you do DSPPFM on the copied physical
file using F10=Hex? Just the first screen or two.
--Dave
David C. Shea wrote:
A friend of mine has a savlib backup tape that he convertedfrom one media type to SLR5 using a PC tape copying gizmo
called NovaExchange. I can see that the library is there,
but something is different about the tape such that the AS400
doesn't think it's a save file.
file to see if I could mangle the thing into a SAVF. I can
I have tried a few things like doing a CPYFRMTAP as a tape
DSPPFM the copied file and see things that LOOK like a savf
might, but no dice.
length of the converted tape is not 0 as it should be, but 32768.
The tape is ebcdic. The block size is 32768. The record
offloaded a savlib backup and mangled it into a save file?
A 'save file' has a record length of 528...
I'm just scratching the surface here. Has anyone ever
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message: 7
date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:38:13 -0700
from: "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Can UPDATE statement do something like this...
I'd like to use the UPDATE statement to update a specific
character in a character string of a column of a table.
Something like:
UPDATE dodom.table1 set SUBSTRING(column5, 5,1) = 'B'
where column2 = 'CP'
Of course the above bombs on the paren after SUBSTRING;
expects token like =
If not possible, I'll create a program using REXX and SQL.
Thanks in advance,
Dave O
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