IBM CMS dumpfile idiocy

Dave Wade dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 15:42:31 CST 2015


No psw on a cms tape. It's just a dump of the disk blocks.
On Dec 16, 2015 9:24 PM, "jwsmobile" <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:

> If it's an 80 byte record, the PSW is further into the block.  the first
> 80 positions from the Green card should be a clue.
>
> thanks
> jim
>
> On 12/16/2015 12:35 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
>> On 12/16/2015 12:03 PM, jwsmobile wrote:
>>
>> Does the first block have a PSW looking thing in the appropriate
>>> start, and an I/O program to boot the next record from the boot
>>> device?
>>>
>>
>> Not to my eye--it starts off thusly:
>>
>> 02 c3 d4 e2 c6
>>
>> Looks more like 02 "CMSF"
>>
>> --Chuck
>>
>>
>>
>


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