Tape Processing at ITS

NOTE: The ITS Customer Support Center no longer has working tape drives;
the information on this page is for legacy and referral purposes only

Media Transfer -- Policies

How to Find Outside Vendors who provide Data Transfer Services

Programs that Map and Read SL (EBCDIC) and AL (ASCII) tapes

• SLmap.sas -- lists files on an IBM Standard Label (SL) EBCDIC tape
  
• SLread.sas -- extracts files from an IBM Standard Label (SL) EBCDIC tape
  
• ALmap.sas -- lists files on an ANSI Standard Label (AL) ASCII tape
  
• ALread.sas -- extracts files from an ANSI Standard Label (AL) ASCII tape
  
• PDSread.sas -- extracts text data from tape files that originally were IBM mainframe Partition Data Sets (PDSs)
  

A Brief Guide to ansitape

Some Helpful Hints for the tar Command