Since a 3490 compatible drive can read a 3480 cartridge, you can read the tapes. For safety sake, I would write protect the cartridges before mounting them.
The only thing your user needs to do is add UNIT=3490 and VOL=SER=(V05234,V07289) to the JCL to bypass the catalog search. I would recommend against recataloging any of these datasets simply to avoid transcription errors. Anyone who needs to access the old data can look up the volume(s) in the catalog using AMS or ISPF. >-----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-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
