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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