Yes, they are written/read in EBCDIC. Using tapeutil you can read 3 x 80 byte records (I think, long time since I had to do it), there is an appendix in one of the IBM tape Redbooks that describes the format.
It's probably a hangover from MVS tape labelling (which is why the format is not in a manual AIX'ers would normally read). Once you have the 3 records, you can use dd to display the info - if it's important enough I can find the spec if you want Dominic -----Original Message----- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 5 January 2002 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape label compatability That's interesting! I know the FORMAT of the lables is the same, but I thought AIX wrote them in ASCII, and OS/390 wrote them in EBCDIC. Does AIX write them/read them in EBCDIC?!? -----Original Message----- From: Joshua S. Bassi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape label compatability Yes, the labels are all the same. -- Joshua S. Bassi Independent Consultant & IBM Server/Storage Sales Rep. IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape label compatability We have a TSM server running under OS/390. We are looking into the issues involved in migrating the TSM server to AIX or HP-UX. We use 3590 tape drives. We would like to do a phased migration of both drives and cartridges to the UNIX server. For the cartridges the migration process would consist of converting mainframe scratch volumes to UNIX scratch volumes as data was moved off the mainframe server. Can a cartridge labeled for mainframe use be checked into a UNIX TSM server without relabeling?
