Lizette, I was told that 3480 data can be read on the 3490 device type. The data was not migrated over to 3490 devices.
The dsn resides on a physical 3480 device type. -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 7/25/14, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: ALTERING DEVTYPE IN THE CATALOG ENTRY To: [email protected] Received: Friday, July 25, 2014, 8:05 AM If they got rid of the drives, where are you going to read the data? Did you migrate the data to the new hardware? What does this data set reside on now? Is it a virtual tape solution? Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of willie bunter > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ALTERING DEVTYPE IN THE CATALOG ENTRY > > Good Day To All > > We have a serious problem. We got rid of all our 3480 type drives however a user > needs to read some very old data. > > I was wondering if I can alter the CATALOG ENTRY of the DEVTYPE to 3490? If > so, would you have an example. > > Below is a LISTCAT of the user's tape dsn: > > NONVSAM ------- HEST.DPROM01.RCI690 > IN-CAT --- SYS1.ICFCAT.UCATHEST > HISTORY > DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL) CREATION--------2005.040 > RELEASE----------------2 EXPIRATION------0000.000 > VOLUMES > VOLSER------------V05234 DEVTYPE------X'78048080' FSEQN-- > VOLSER------------V07289 DEVTYPE------X'78048080' FSEQN-- > > Thanks > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
