What is the BYTEPRC field in CA 1
Article ID: 132283
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Products
CA 1 Tape Management
CA 1 Tape Management - Copycat Utility
CA 1 Tape Management - Add-On Options
Issue/Introduction
What is the BYTEPRC field in CA 1 Volume and DSNB records?
The ISPF Online Help just says:
BYTEPRC Actual percentage bytes written.
Environment
Release:
Component: 1
Component: 1
Resolution
The BYTEPRC field was introduced in CA 1 Release 12.6 with PTF RO68743.
Following the description of the PTF explaining the new field:
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This enhancement adds a new 1-byte percentage field to both the TMC volume
records (for file-1 information) and DSNB records (for file-n information).
This new 1-byte percentage field indicates what percentage of the calculated
number of bytes written to the file were actually written. For example, if
1,000 blocks of data was written with a 64k blocksize, taking block-count
times block-size would indicate that 65Mb of data was written. But, if the
actual size of the blocks written was only 47k on average, only 47Mb of
data would actually reside on the tape. The new 1-byte percentage field in
this case would contain a "72" indicating that 72% of the calculated data
was actually written to the tape.
SYMPTOMS:
For files written with RECFM of U or VB, it is very likely that the
blocksize specified during OPEN (or in the JCL) is only the reported value
and may be different then the actual blocks of data written. This results
in a calculated value of data written being different (sometimes smaller,
sometimes larger) than the amount of data actually written to the tape.
IMPACT:
Reports that simply multiply block-count times block-size to obtain the
total number of bytes written may be over or under reporting the true
number of bytes written to tape.
CIRCUMVENTION:
Analyze SMF21 data to obtain the true number of bytes written to each
volume.
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Following the description of the PTF explaining the new field:
>>>>
This enhancement adds a new 1-byte percentage field to both the TMC volume
records (for file-1 information) and DSNB records (for file-n information).
This new 1-byte percentage field indicates what percentage of the calculated
number of bytes written to the file were actually written. For example, if
1,000 blocks of data was written with a 64k blocksize, taking block-count
times block-size would indicate that 65Mb of data was written. But, if the
actual size of the blocks written was only 47k on average, only 47Mb of
data would actually reside on the tape. The new 1-byte percentage field in
this case would contain a "72" indicating that 72% of the calculated data
was actually written to the tape.
SYMPTOMS:
For files written with RECFM of U or VB, it is very likely that the
blocksize specified during OPEN (or in the JCL) is only the reported value
and may be different then the actual blocks of data written. This results
in a calculated value of data written being different (sometimes smaller,
sometimes larger) than the amount of data actually written to the tape.
IMPACT:
Reports that simply multiply block-count times block-size to obtain the
total number of bytes written may be over or under reporting the true
number of bytes written to tape.
CIRCUMVENTION:
Analyze SMF21 data to obtain the true number of bytes written to each
volume.
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