RE: tape

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

If   life gets too difficult  coping tape to a  Mainframe there is a 
Mainframe Utility called DITTO  and it pretty much  copies anything.

At 05:05 PM 9/23/2004, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As others pointed out.  You could either CPYTOTAP/CPYFRMTAP or your could
> open it directly from RPG using OVRTAPF.  Since disk isn't quite the issue
> anymore I think I'd go with the former.
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> Rob Berendt
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> > I am sure it can be done.  Been YEARS since I played with
> > this, but we did have programs that would read tape files
> > directly from RPG on our iSeries.
> >  Back when disk was very limited on the old S/36 this
> > capability was one of my arguments to management for getting
> > an AS/400.
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> I did it years ago exchanging tapes with SuperValu.  The details I
> remember
> were having to use CPYTOTAP and CPYFRMTAP instead of SAVxxx and RSTxxx.
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