Tape Client overview
Tape Client Job Submission Guide 1-5
Tape job accounting
The Tape Client maintains a job log file, which contains
accounting data for each job. You can view and print this log.
Information is logged in the accounting file during processing at
the following times:
• At the end of each file, the following information is logged:
–Timestamp
– Data blocks read
– Completion status of the file
• At the end of the print job, the following information is logged:
–Timestamp
– Completion status of the job
– Valid tape mounts
– Total data blocks read
– JDL and JDE names
– Queue name
– Tape file ID
The Job Log is presented in table format, with one line for each
job ID.
Tape dump
You can request a tape dump (a printout of all the tape contents)
in order to troubleshoot a job. You print the dump by making the
appropriate specifications on the Tape Client window on the DP
EPS controller, setting up a queue with the required properties,
and running the tape job.
ThetapedumpisformattedinASCIIandissenttothecontroller
and printed by the ASCII decomposer.
Refer to “Starting and ending an offline dump session,” in
chapter 2, “Managing and printing jobs from the tape client.”