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TMSAUDIT Utility—Analyze TMC Activity

TMSAUDIT is an excellent tool for analyzing specific problems and tape processing trends in your environment. Any time a TMC record is updated, the updated image is placed in the Audit data set with a date, time, and code stamp. TMSAUDIT can report on the live Audit data set that reflects your most recent activity on the TMC, or on the backups of the Audit that are created during TMSCOPY execution for historical information.

You are advised to keep from 6 to 12 months of Audit backup data available for historical reporting and suspected error report analysis.

The Audit record types (or codes) generated are:

• Type 0 - reflects updates by CA 1 batch or on-line facilities
• Type 1 - reflects real-time input activity
• Type 2 - reflects real-time output activity
• Type 3 - reflects nonresident tape processing and other exceptions
• Type 4 - reflects NOT SCRATCH demount activity
• Type 5 - reflects CA 1 functional modification and initialization activity

Control statements allow you to select the Audit records for a specific VOLSER, a group of specific VOLSERs, a contiguous range of VOLSERs, or a given type of Audit record. You can specify the sort sequence by VOLSER, DSN, TIME (the default) or TYPE.

Depending on the control statements that are used, TMSAUDIT produces any of the following reports:

• Batch Update Audit Records (Type 0)
• Input Activity Audit Records (Type 1)
• Output Activity Audit Records (Type 2)
• Audit Exception Records (Type 3)
• Audit Not-Scratch Rejects (Type 4)
• Audit of Functional Modifications (Type 5)