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From: chuck@felix.UUCP (Chuck Vertrees)
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Subject: Re: MVS to VMS Tape Transfer
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 19:43:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 19:43:03 1987
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In article <2193@brspyr1.BRS.Com> mikeg@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Gionfriddo) writes:
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>I am looking for some utility software that can either write tapes on an
>IBM  MVS  System  that are readable under VMS or a utility that can read
>labelled MVS tapes.  Ideally, the utility would work with ANSI  labelled
>tapes.   This  utility  must  also  be  able to label and write multiple
>volume sets.  Does anything like this exist?  ...

I know nothing about the IBM world as regards to tape writing, but VMS already
reads and writes ANSI standard labeled tapes.  The default way VMS treats tapes
is to assume that they are ANSI labeled.  You have to do special things to
treat it differently.  

Possibly you are more interested in translating EBCDIC to ASCII and back.  If
this is the case, you simply treat the EBCDIC tape as a foreign tape.  In about
15 minutes you can write a simple program to translate between the two code
systems using the built-in library functions.