CA View - Need to Restore an Expired Report from Tape Backup

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

A report went to CA View, and the client saw where a backup was taken, showing the report. 

The report became inadvertently deleted, and the client wanted to know of any way to restore the report to the database. 

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : CA View

Resolution

To bring back an expired report that is still on tape, SARTDR /TADD can be used: 

//XXXXXXXX JOB ... 

//SARTDR01 EXEC PGM=SARTDR,PARM='view_hlq' <=== Modify DB name 

//STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VIEW.CVDELOAD <=== Modify, if used 

//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 

//TAPEINP DD DISP=SHR,DSN=view_hlq.SARTAPE.T00nnnnn 

//SYSIN DD * 

/TADD DDNAME=TAPEINP ID=... GEN=... 

/* 

//