After SARPAC Old Tapes Still Remaining Show One Report

Products

• View

Issue/Introduction

After a run of SARPAC, there were old tapes still remaining in the SARPAC tape list indicating that one active report still remained on the tape.

Environment

• View®
• OM View for z
• Output Management View® for z/OS

Cause

In this instance, SARPACs using "//SYSIN DD ..." of TAPESEQ=nnnnn (single tape) were performed, and the tapes in question had, at their beginning, a continuation of a report.

As SARPAC cannot move a partial report, the tapes (despite having other reports being moved) continued to hold the partial report. 

Resolution

For future SARPACs of this type:

•  Run a SARTCP TAPEMAP, to determine if the targeted tape contains any partial reports, either at the beginning of the tape or at the end of a tape (where the report would finish on a subsequent tape). 
•  If not, then that solo tape can be input to SARPAC. 
•  If so, then determine what other tapes surrounding that tape contain the other pieces of the partial reports, continuing that process until there is a tape range to input to SARPAC, whereas there are all complete reports.