How to get SPACE information for a TAPE Dataset?

GAFUR · New User Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 31

Hi Group,

How to get SPACE information for a TAPE Dataset?

I want to copy this data set into a new PS file.

In my system i dont have TMS and the commands like 'TI' or 'TMS' wont work.

Regards,
Gafur

mainframelover · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Bangalore

hi,
just go to 'Removable Media Manager - tape management' option & specify the tape name you can get the space information

TizMe · New User Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 72

Without knowing which tape management system you are using it is impossible to answer your question.

?A problem well-defined is half solved? ? John Dewey

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:02 pm

Hello,

First, look in the documentatio for the tape trailer record formats.

Second "print" the trailer records on the tape you are interested in.

In the trailer data should be a block count which you can use to calculate what space you would need to allocate.

If is much easier if your site has a tape management system, but this should work regardless of the tape management system. You may need to as for assistance from the tape support people or the systems programmers to "print" the trailer info.

William Thompson · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:14 pm

Well put Dick, it's been soooo long since I even thought about trailer labels, I didn't even think of them.....

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:13 pm

Thanx WT,

Would've been better put if i'd not included the typos and could have remembered the label record format<g>. . . .

guptae · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:38 am

Hi Gafur,

You can use sort for this.