It's been 2 weeks, and I still have no idea how to get the data off my
tape dump. Thanks to those few who ventured guesses as to the origin of
the data. After finally getting ahold of the people who sent it, I know
that the data came from AS/400. I can load the files to a ufs
file-system on my Alpha running DU3.2G, but can only read junk from them
(see forwarded message).
Is anyone aware of a way to read data files from an AS/400? Some of the
headers are readable (normally ascii characters), but there are a lot of
control characters and garbage interspersed. I assume I need some sort
of translator/filter. Does such a thing exist?
I'm about ready to send the tape back to the client and call it quits!
susrod_at_HBSI.com
> ----------
> From: Susan Rodriguez
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 1997 9:40 AM
> To: 'OSF Managers'
> Cc: Paul Kitwin; Blake Roberts
> Subject: Unrecognizable data dump
>
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to load raw data files to an Alpha 1000A (DU3.2G) from
> tapes dumped from an unknown system. The file names look a bit like
> VMS: 13094_2303_h.2
>
> Question:
>
> Does anyone recognize this type of raw data and what type of system/OS
> it may have come from?
>
>
> M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?QSRDSSPC.1 ^YM-o^OM-^?^AM-<^C^A^V
> ^V ^ZM-^_at_^AL/D OBJECT DESCRIPTOR
> 3490#M-jM-.M-sHM-^DM-^?M-^H^AM-^_at_M-^X
> ^A^DVQM-2M-#^ALM-\^D\^Z^Q\ ^DVQM-2M-#
>
> ^AM-^_at_aM-C^DVQM-2M-#^A^DVQM-2M-#^AM-C^YM-oQSRDSSPC.1
> M-Q^ZM-^_at_M-^?^\^C^A#M-jM-.M-rM--GM-C^A^B^?^DVQM-2M-#^B^A#M-jM-.M-s
> M-9$M-CM-^?^\3\3^AM-^ZMEMDTA
> M-^\^A#M-jM-.M-raM-RM-C^A
>
> RECORD TYPE P1RTYPqP1DDTE
> P1DDTE
> M-^\^CM-^EM-^EM-^F^V-M-^Fk
>
>
> DISCHARGE DATE P1DDTEqP1DISP
> P1DISP
> M-^\^CM-^OM-^O^B^V-M-^Fk
>
> DISCHARGE DISP P1DISPqP1EAUT
> P1EAUT
> M-^\^C^]^]^A^V-M-^Fk
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Susan Rodriguez
> HBS International
> Seattle, WA
>
Received on Fri Sep 19 1997 - 19:44:35 NZST