Another Win For VMSHARE

[Jeff Gribbin, EDS]

This is simply a, "happy tale". I hope you enjoy it and can share my
delight.

We have a need to audit a few hundred 3490 tapes - we need to verify that
the internal VOL1 labels match with the external labels.

A fellow team-member wished that we could, "reverse engineer" the usual
technique where the system displays the volser of the tape that it WANTS
on the 3490 display and instead get it to display the volser of whatever
tape you happen to LOAD.

This triggered memories of utilities having been written to do such
things, and discussed on VMSHARE, long ago in a galaxy far far away.

So, on to http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/ to see what we can find. In next-
to no time, I find NOTE RXLD3480, from Mike Walter, dated 1996.

A few minutes of cut-and-pasting later (hey, Rob, ever considered putting
a DOWNLOAD function on the VMSHARE pages - or is it there and I missed
it?) and I have the file on MAINT's 191. A quick VMFHLASM against my zVM
5.2 MACLIBS and it's assembled without error and two minutes later I'm
flashing up messages on my tape drives.

Another half-hour to develop a suitable Rexx wrapper and, lo, I have my
tape-volser-audit utility up and running!

Thankyou Mike, thankyou Rob, thankyou MARIST, thankyou VMSHARE.

If you're enough of a newbie that you don't know what VMSHARE is then
my, "give back" to the community on this occasion is to invite you to
visit the archives (URL above). Yes, it's old stuff - but it's still good
stuff and anyone who has a living interest in VM will benefit from the
time that they spend there.

Regards
jeff

[Rich Greenberg]

On: Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:04:56AM -0600,Jeff Gribbin, EDS Wrote:

} A few minutes of cut-and-pasting later (hey, Rob, ever considered putting
} a DOWNLOAD function on the VMSHARE pages - or is it there and I missed

Jeff,
Glad that VMSHARE came thru for you again. There is such a function in
M$'s Internet Exploder (and I assume most other browsers). Just right
click the link and do a "Save Target as..". Then upload from the PC to
VM.

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[Jeff Gribbin, EDS]

Just right click the link and do a "Save Target as..".

There's always a, "better way" ... :-) Thanks Rich!

(Actually, from inside Internet Explorer, while "Browsing" the relevant
file inside VMSHARE, do, "File --> Save As" and then choose
filetype, "Txt".)

Never mind, the copy/paste took a LOT less time than writing the code from
scratch - and the menial activity was probably good for my soul <g>.

Regards
Jeff

[Rob van der Heij]

Post by Jeff Gribbin, EDS
A few minutes of cut-and-pasting later (hey, Rob, ever considered putting
a DOWNLOAD function on the VMSHARE pages - or is it there and I missed
it?)

I would also have suggested to just save the text from the browser but
I see the conversion to HTML gets things wrong a little. My apologies
for that. Maybe I should check the code and find that bug...

Post by Jeff Gribbin, EDS
Thankyou Mike, thankyou Rob, thankyou MARIST, thankyou VMSHARE.

All my pleasure!

Rob
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Rob van der Heij
Velocity Software, Inc