Cobol - Re: EBCDIC to ASCII OPTCD=Q? (JCL)

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Re: EBCDIC to ASCII OPTCD=Q? (JCL)

William M. Klein

2006-09-19, 9:55 pm

Doc,
I don't think this has made it back to comp.lang.cobol yet. Hope this helps.

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Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
<Efinnell15@ibm-main.lst> wrote in message news:3f2.9b25b13.3241a329@aol.com...
>
> In a message dated 9/19/2006 2:39:01 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> mark.zelden@ZURICHNA.COM writes:
>
> There are various reasons you might get that message. It is from the
> SMC component of Sun/STK that is used with their tape robotic
> software. Without getting into a lot of detail, the easiest way
> to bypass SMC (which handles all the tape allocations) is to specify
> a unit address in the JCL instead of an estoeric / generic.
>
> Example: //TAPEDD DD DSN=MY.DSN,DISP=SHR,VOL=123456,UNIT=/5200
>
> (slash needed for 4 digit addresses)
>
>
>
> Can we just FTP to the tape drive as txt and let FTP do the conversion?
> Don't have this setup, but seems more straightforward.
>
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2006-09-20, 7:55 am

In article <B11Qg.324574$TD2.64964@fe08.news.easynews.com>,
William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
>Doc,
> I don't think this has made it back to comp.lang.cobol yet. Hope this helps.
>
>--
>Bill Klein
> wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
><Efinnell15@ibm-main.lst> wrote in message news:3f2.9b25b13.3241a329@aol.com...

Ooooohhhhh... direct addressing! I like it... but my installation
doesn't. When used in an IEBGENER:

//SYSUT2 DD DSN=VDA1WSX.TEST.ASCII,
// DISP=(,CATLG,CATLG),
// UNIT=/5200,EXPDT=98000,VOL=SER=10101,
// DCB=(LRECL=6000,RECFM=D,OPTCD=Q),LABEL=(
1,NL)

.... gives a JCL error of 'DTM1107I STEP1 SYSUT2 - UNIT FIELD SPECIFIES
INCORRECT DEVICE NAME - /5200' and I'm not sure how to go about finding
what this site's tape device names are.
[color=darkred]

Not... yet, no.

Thanks much!

DD

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