Re: Mastering Iseries CDs, DVDs

[Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>]

Depending on your version (v5r3+ I think) you can write to a virtual cd 
or DVD drive.  I might make the pre-mastering thing unneeded.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/rzam4/rzam4virtual.htm

Bryan


> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Mastering Iseries CDs, DVDs
>
> Currently we master CDs and DVDs by saving libraries to tape while the
> job is placed in a mastering state. We then read the tape file directly
> and write it to a PC drive via a share where we just burn a copy of the
> file to a CD or DVD. That file, on a CD or DVD, can be restored using
> SAVLIB or SAVOBJ
>
> The entire process runs well but the tape portion is a major chunk of
> processing time. It all runs unattended so we don't normally notice the
> time. However, once in a while we need to do it over and then it take
> way longer than we would like.
>
> Is it possible to do the SAVE process to a Savefile under the mastering
> state then just write the savefile to PC share and burn a CD.
>
> I know I can just go and try to do all this but I thought I would ask
> before I write the code and procedures to try it.  
>
> Steve Moland