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On 30/10/2007, at 6:52 AM, David C. Shea wrote:
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.
What makes you think it **SHOULD** be a save file (SAVF) object? If
the original tape was created by SAVLIB (and NovaExchange hasn't
screwed it up) then it won't **BE** a save file and a RSTLIB should
bring it back.
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.
What you are seeing is **PROBABLY** the normal tape save format from
SAVLIB.
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.
Other than Record length this looks like it **MIGHT** be a valid save
tape. Is the tape a standard labelled tape (Type *SL)? Does
NovaExchange allow the record length to be specified or is it
deriving it?
Supplying this information implies that you can run DSPTAP on the
tape. What makes you think OS/400 cannot process it?
A 'save file' has a record length of 528...
A save file (SAVF) will only exist on tape **AS** a save file if it
was saved as part of a SAVLIB ,SAVOBJ, or SAVCHGOBJ (or SAV too
probably) operation. If the original save was a SAVxxx **TOO** a save
file which was then saved to tape via SAVSAVFDTA then the tape will
contain the same data as **WOULD** have been saved when using SAVxxx
directly.
I'm just scratching the surface here. Has anyone ever offloaded a
savlib backup and mangled it into a save file?
Not to my knowledge ... but the real question is why are you trying
to do this? If the data on tape hasn't been buggered by NovaExchange
then the corresponding RSTxxx command should bring it back.
So ...
What does DSPTAP ... DATA*LABELS) show?
What does DSPTAP ... DATA(*SAVRST) show?
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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