November 2003
Intermediate to advanced
212 pages
6h 37m
English
book
S/390 PartnerWorld for Developers, ITSO/EFS Project EFS Systems on a Linux Base: Additional Topics
by Bill Ogden, Michael Ryan
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Chapter 10. Tape usage 147
10.2 FLEX-ES FakeTape on z/OS
FakeTape
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emulates tape devices using Linux disk files instead of tape drives. Provided the
appropriate tape devices are defined in the z/OS IODF configuration data set, FakeTape will
emulate any type of tape drive from 3420 to 3490-E. Because FakeTape always writes and
reads the same format to/from Linux, it operates at the same speed for all different emulated
tape device types. We ran several tape jobs using IEBGENER, IEBCOPY and DFDSS and
they all performed well. Our z/OS and FLEX-ES definitions included a 3480 tape drive at
address 560.
This is one of the jobs we executed:
//P390T
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