Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
wrote: Is the format of the archive used by vmarc documented anywhere? if one were to use the pack function to put a number of CMS files into an archive file and then transfer this to another system,
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Steven Fosdick
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
What are you trying actually to do?? Load files onto VM?? Get files off?
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
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Dave Wade
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
VMARC and friends can handle any type of file format or record size and restore to same. George Shedlock
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gshedlock352@...
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
Apologies ... I made a hack to batch up text files for ind$file, I can extend that and use cards, but from the comments here I was wondering if there was an existing solution. That said, I get that
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adriansutherland67
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT I think the problem with tape dump files is either they are specific to a version of CMS or they are specific to a disk
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
Yes. There are some programs to around to take CMS ¡°tape dump¡± files and extract the files Dave Sent: 31 January 2020 19:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Writing / reading text
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Dave Wade
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
Thanks Scott ... Looking at the manual, am I right in thinking these only work in the direction pc to host?
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adriansutherland67
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
Have you explored OMA tapes?? Never tried them under VM, but they work under MVS. ScottC
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ScottC
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Writing / reading text files with tapes
Before I go down the route of punching files etc. is there a simple tool to read and add ASCII files, at the pc end, to tapes, covering to ebcdic and so on. I have looked but can't find much although
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adriansutherland67
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Gregg Its an add-on so it is only in the "n--packs" The source is on the Waterloo tape. It may need tweaking as it was originally written on sepp/bsepp. Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Hello! It does? Then why did I get this from a DIAL CPWATCH command string on the original one, DIAL CPWATCH DMKDIA045E CPWATCH NOT LOGGED ON IND from the console not the 3270 shows what it is doing,
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Gregg Levine
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Clarkson went the other direction, we started with the student users on MUSIC 4.0 in 1980.? When I returned in 1985, they had all but shutdown MUSIC and moved everyone to CMS.? Then, after I left
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Le jeu. 30 janv. 2020 ¨¤ 18:44, Bob Polmanter <wably@...> a ¨¦crit : The bane of my existence was a statistical product called SAS, which for us > ran under CMS. The mathematicians and
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Dave, We did not have the SAS C compiler, thankfully.? I did come across it later in my career but fortunately for me it wasn't something I had to deal with. Regards, Bob
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Bob Polmanter
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Bob, You have just given me nightmares! Did you have the SAS ¡°C¡± compiler as well! Mind you we had Oracle as well but thankfully no MVS¡ .. but it could be worse VM was great compared to VAX/VMS
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Dave, I understand. System performance became something of a career thing for me back in the day.? We did run MVS as a guest under VM/SP HPO in a production environment on a 16MB 4381, and as the
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Bob Polmanter
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Bob, I said ¡°can fall of¡±! Of course in our situation , running 360 and 370 operating systems with typically a trivial workload on hardware that out performs anything that the original software
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Our Amdahl didn't have any assists unfortunately (and we used to get a whole lot of grief with mail coming in over the EARN link from Rutherford with reversed domain addresses...) It could move
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
The S/158 processor could run as a channel or CP as well.? In fact, the 3033 used 158 engines running in pure channel mode under the covers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_303X
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Drew Derbyshire
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