Re: new iSeries write cd-rom

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As one of the providers of premastering software, I'll take a shot here.

CD is still the same - if using tape you use an API to set (reset?) a flag 
in the SAV process. Then you either take the tape to a duplicator company 
or get the save images off the tape to your PC. Our product helps do this.

There's still no specific support for spanning volumes. We provide some 
suggestions here, but it usually involves some development work on your 
part - not hard, just necessary. "Load next volume" messages, etc.

With DVD, I believe there is internal and external DVD-RAM - it is writable 
and I believe saves can be done to it directly, replacing tape. According 
to IBM, here are its capablities:

The drive will read CD-ROM,CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and DVD-RAM media. It can 
write only DVD-RAM media.

Presumably, products could be written to this directly, with the usual 
SAVxxx suspects.

HTH

Vern

At 12:03 PM 5/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> What is the current status of writing software to a cd-rom or dvd
> with the new iSeries? And how are multivolume writes handled?
> Or is it just easier to use a pc product?
> tia
> jim