CA View - Running SARPAC for Tape Consolidation

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• View

Issue/Introduction

Our Control Group used to run the View Tape Consolidation process (SARPAC) by giving it tape ranges after reviewing the % from the tape report. 

Are there any other suggestions on identifying what tapes to use?

Environment

Release : 14.0

Component : CA View

Resolution

For tape consolidation, including moving reports to new media, you would do the following:

 . Run SARPAC REPORT:

//XXXXXXXX JOB ...                                                   
//SARPAC   EXEC PGM=SARPAC,PARM='VIEW_HLQ,REPORT' <=== MODIFY DB NAME
//STEPLIB  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=VIEW.CVDELOAD     <=== MODIFY, IF USED   
//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*                                              
//SYSUDUMP DD  SYSOUT=*                                              
//SYSIN    DD  DUMMY                                                 
//                                                                   

 . The output from SARPAC REPORT should be reviewed, in determining ranges of tapes that can be run, for run scheduling and efficiencies. 

Once the ranges of tapes is determined, the regular SARPAC can be run:

//XXXXXXXX JOB ...                                                   
//SARPAC   EXEC PGM=SARPAC,PARM='VIEW_HLQ'    <=== MODIFY DB NAME
//STEPLIB  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=VIEW.CVDELOAD     <=== MODIFY, IF USED   
//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*                                              
//SYSUDUMP DD  SYSOUT=*                                              
//SYSIN    DD  *                                                     
TAPESEQ=nnnnn-nnnnn
/*                                                                   
//

 where the range of tapes is by tape sequence number (....SARTAPE.T00nnnnn). 

If possible, do not run SARPAC during the run of a View backup, as both functions are index-heavy in their processes, which could conflict at times.