RE: Mastering Iseries CDs, DVDs

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elvis

It's been a while since I worked on that product, but I don't think 
the premastering stuff is a part of it when using the SAVF method.

The premastering flags do not have any effect on SAVF processing, but 
they might on saving to virtual tape - hmm!

Vern

At 12:45 PM 3/21/2007, you wrote:

> We (Centerfield) have a commercial product that performs CD mastering and
> one of the options is save file method (vs sav/rst method).
> So I'd say yes, it is possible.
> As to details how it works... I'm not sure, it's not the one I work on
> myself.
>
> Elvis
>
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> -----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
>
>
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