View - Tapes are not Getting Scratched

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

Customer is migrating tapes and has used the SARPAC process, to which they receive an INDEX ONLY message as below. The database has SARINIT setting of NGENI=1.

  Tseq Data Set Name                      Volser   Total  Groups cent Create     Yrs Dplx       Lines Yes/No, Remarks

 ----- ---------------------------------- ------ ------- ------- ---- ---------- --- ---- ----------- ----------------------

    4 ....T0000004                       ABC123      11       0    0 07/20/2015   5                0 N, INDEX ONLY

 

Resolution

The tape would not be expired by View, as it contained the latest valid index backup.

The recommendation is for the client to start the View SARSTC task, force a View backup, then stop the SARSTC task.