I've had several responses about using the files=all or skip=# options.
Unfortunately these did not work.  Sigh....

What did gain me some data off the tape, garbled though it was, was the
following:
BUILD FILE19A;REC=-10003,1,F,ASCII;DISC=2000
FILE T1;DEV=TAPE;LABEL=018460,IBM
FCOPY FROM=*T1;TO=FILE19A;EBCDICIN

Now I have lots of records that have a couple of funny ascii characters at
the beginning of each logical record.  It also appears that I have several
logical records stuffed into each phyical record.

Hmmmm.....  This all points back to the deblock option in the fcopy command
and the record lenth in the file command.  I just can't put my finger on the
right combination yet though!

Carl McNamee
Systems Administrator
Billing Concepts
(210) 949-7282



-----Original Message-----
From: Carl McNamee [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 2:41 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] Reading an IBM tape?


To the gods of the 3k list.  I have an IBM formated tape that I cannot
figure out how to read into our system.  This is especially frustrating
since we do this type of thing on a daily basis.

Specifics:
The tape has 290,000 records that are 10,003 bytes each.  The blocking
factor is 10,007.  I tried the following just to get a few records off the
tape for analysis.
BUILD FILE19A;REC=-10003,1,F,ASCII;DISC=2000
FILE T1;DEV=TAPE;REC=-32384,1,U,ASCII;LABEL=018460,IBM
FCOPY FROM=*T1;TO=FILE19A;DEBLOCK=-10003;EBCDICIN

The FCOPY command gave me the error:
*143*WARNING: FROMFILE IS EMPTY

Now I know that the fromfile is not empty because we dumped it onto onto one
of our AS/400 systems.

Any thoughts on how we can read this tape on the 3k?

Carl McNamee
Systems Administrator
Billing Concepts
(210) 949-7282




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