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[Shilpi]

Hi,

I need immediate assistance. I have to unload some VSAM files from the tape which is mounted on our mainframe. I have the contents of the tape which I extracted using TAPEMAP. It has given me following information,

DATASET NAME
PSWD REQD
C-DATE
E-DATE
INFO SOURCE
RECFM
LRECL
BLOCK SIZE
BLOCK COUNT
etc...

Can somebody help me??

Thanks,

[kolusu]

Shilpi,

I don't quite understand your requirement. If your aim is to dump the contents of the vsam file to a seq file then you can use any of the IBM utilities like IEBGENER, IDCAMS ..

But I would recommend SORT utility as it is highly optimized.

[Gordon Maxim]

Shilpi is trying to get the VSAM datasets off a tape. They were probably put on the tape with IDCAMS and if so they can be read off the tape and turned back into VSAM datasets using IDCAMS.

I suggest Shilpi asks for a copy of the JCL that was used to write the tape from whoever created it. That should give a pretty clear indication which utility, eg IDCAMS, should be used to restore the contents of the tape. Once that's known, consult the appropriate manual for that utility.