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[manojvoona]

Hi ,

Please some one help me.
we got some Tapes from one of our vendors.

We loaded the tapes onto SILO. Now we only know the Vol SER # and do not know any thing other than that.

Is there way we can pull the tape information to mainframes.

I used the following job to pull

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

try IDCAMS or IEBGENER?
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[manojvoona]

THanks for reply

I am new to JCL. It will be of great help if you could give me the JOB.

Thanks
Manoj Voona

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

is there no IEC149I msg? an 813 is a tape open error.

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

if you have ditto, that is also a good tape utility
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

try this:

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

If you continue to have 813's, you are going to have to read you jes (job output msgs) and determine the problem.

could be that it is a multivolume tape, but I don't have any idea until the complete set of error msgs for the 813 is provided.
_________________
Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[Bill Dennis]

You can dump the headers (if the tapes are standard label format). The headers are the first thing on the tape, 80 bytes each and contain DSN, RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE, etc. The DFSMS manual "Using Magnetic Tapes" explains the header layouts.

[manojvoona]

Thanks Bill,

Thanks for your Reply !!!.
Can you please help us in resolving some questions.
1. we are not able to get the PDS NAME of the tape.
In the Step you mentioned it as DSN=DUMP.TAPE.
But we do not know the DSName . can we copy to a flat file with out this.

2. with VOLSER, I am not able to see the Tape in the list displayed. should be need to run any job to mount the tape on SILO. I spoke the ADMIN and he said it was mounted. Please let us know the process to copy the tape info to a PS.

Help in this regard is highly appreciated.

thanks in advance.
Manoj Voona

[Bill Dennis]

[manojvoona]

Hi Bill,
Thanks for your reply.
Here is the spool information when I ran the above job.

16.26.10 JOB09720 IEC502E K 0425,A20411,SL,TSO5151A,STEP1OF1
16.26.10 JOB09720 TMS014 IEC502E K 0425,A20411,SL,TSO5151A,STEP1OF1
16.26.10 JOB09720 *IEC501A M 0425,A20411,NL,,TSO5151A,STEP1OF1,DUMMY
16.26.10 JOB09720 *TMS008 IEC501A M 0425,A20411,NL,,TSO5151A,STEP1OF1,DUMMY

The above 4 lines are repeating for ever which I could not figure out.
Please help us in this regard.


Regarding the 2 point in the above message is , We could see all the Tapes in that are in SILO through utility below
Panel Help
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VOLUME LIST SELECTION MENU
Enter Selection or Command ===>

1 DASD - Generate a List of DASD Volumes
2 Mountable Optical - Generate a List of Mountable Optical Volumes
3 Mountable Tape - Generate a List of Mountable Tape Volumes



Use HELP Command for Help; Use END Command to Exit.






. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Screen 2
MOUNTABLE TAPE VOLUME LIST
Command ===> Scroll ===> HALF
Entries 1-22 of 994
Enter Line Operators below: Data Columns 3-7 of 20

LINE VOLUME USE VOLUME CHECKPT LIBRARY STORAGE
OPERATOR SERIAL ATTR ERROR STATUS VOLUME NAME GRP NAM
---(1)---- -(2)-- --(3)-- -------(4)-------- --(5)-- --(6)--- --(7)--
Z20000 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20001 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20002 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20003 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20004 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20005 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20006 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20007 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20008 SCRATCH NO ERROR NO ATLN25 *SCRTCH
Z20009 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20010 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20011 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20012 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20013 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R
Z20014 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20015 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20016 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20017 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20018 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN57 N3590R
Z20019 PRIVATE NO ERROR NO ATLN25 N3590R

We could not see our Tape in the above list.

THanks

[nitin_agarwal77]

This is my first quote and I'm not sure if this is the correct method of posting the reply. But still, here is the method I use to get the Tape related information. Hope this works in your case as well.
I use TSO command in our system to get the tape related information.
The command is 'TSO TSOTIQ'. It prompts for the password and then we can pass on either the DSN name or the Volume Serial number to get the complete info. You may need to talk to your admin to get the TSO command and the password.
Once you get the DSN from Volume Serial Number you can use the methods specified in the thread

[kolusu]

[Bill Dennis]