Working with File Manager
- File Manager overview
- Getting started with File Manager
- Viewing and changing data sets
  To view data stored in a supported data set, use the View Utility or the Edit Utility.
- Creating and editing templates
  For many tasks performed with File Manager, you can manipulate your view of a data set by applying a template.
- Working with the Template List
  Display a list of templates and perform actions on them.
- Filtering records with templates
- Managing data sets
- Using File Manager utilities
- Tape Specific Functions
  - Specifying tape input or output
  - Specifying the number of tape files to process
  - Processing tapes with data-check errors
  - ASCII translation
  - Exported Stacked Volumes (ESVs)
  - Using primary commands with Tape Specific Functions
  - Tape Browse (option 4.1)
  - Tape Data Copy Function (option 4.2)
    - Tape to Tape (option 4.2.1)
    - Tape to Tape Reblocked (option 4.2.2)
    - Tape to Labeled Tape (option 4.2.3)
    - Tape to VSAM (option 4.2.4)
      Tape to VSAM (option 4.2.4) copies all or selected tape records to a VSAM data set. Use VSAM to Tape (option 4.2.6) to restore the file to tape.
    - Tape to Sequential Data (option 4.2.5)
    - VSAM to Tape (option 4.2.6)
    - Sequential Data to Tape (option 4.2.7)
    - Exported Stacked Volume Copy (option 4.2.8)
    - Copying tape data across a network
  - Tape Update (option 4.3)
  - Tape Record Load (option 4.4)
  - Tape Print (option 4.5)
  - Tape Map (option 4.6)
  - Create Tape Data (option 4.7)
    Use Create Tape Data to write simple test records to a tape file. You specify the tape that is to contain the records, the number of records, and the record length.
  - Tape Label Display (option 4.8)
  - Tape to Tape Compare (option 4.9)
  - Tape Record Scan (option 4.10)
  - Write Tape Mark (option 4.11)
  - Initialize Tape (option 4.12)
  - Erase Tape (option 4.13)
  - Exported Stacked Volume List (option 4.14)
  - Tape Positioning Functions (option 4.15)
- Disk/VSAM Data Functions
- OAM Functions
- Using UNIX™ System Services and the Hierarchical File System
- Introduction to programming with File Manager functions
- Enhancing File Manager processing
  You can enhance normal processing of a number of File Manager tasks by supplying a procedure that runs in conjunction with the File Manager process.
- Redefines criteria
  Redefines criteria can be specified for a field with a REDEFINES clause, or a field that is the target of a REDEFINES clause.
- Enhanced ISPF: Reference List, Search, Change, and PDSE Workbench
  File Manager provides several enhancements to the basic facilities that are available in an ISPF session: Enhanced Reference List, Enhanced Search, Enhanced Change, Indexed Search, and PDSE Workbench.
- File Manager Service Provider for z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition
  File Manager Service Provider for IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition enables client applications to access IBM Z data sources using z/OS Connect.
- Function and panel reference lists

Tape Data Copy Function (option 4.2)

When you select Tape Data Copy Function, the Tape Data Copy Function menu shown in Tape Data Copy Function panel is displayed. This panel allows you to duplicate a tape, copy tape data to another storage device, change the record organization, record format, and block size, recover data from a defective tape, and translate between ASCII and EBCDIC formats.

Figure 1. Tape Data Copy Function panel

 Process   Options   Help
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 File Manager               Tape Data Copy Functions

 1  Tape to tape  Copy tape volume to tape volume
 2  Tape reformat Copy and reformat single tape file
 3  Multifile     Copy multivolume and multiple tape files
 4  To VSAM       Copy from tape to VSAM data set
 5  To QSAM       Copy from tape to QSAM data set
 6  From VSAM     Copy from VSAM data set to tape
 7  From QSAM     Copy from QSAM data set to tape
 8  ESV           Copy Exported Stacked Volume






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