Review the TMEVLT03 inventory report of your off-site tapes and identify those tapes that may no longer need to be off-site and can be returned from vault management.
Business Value:
The inventory report of your off-site tape allows you to avoid the loss of tapes in the vault and prevents paying for off-site storage of obsolete tapes.
Additional Considerations:
You can lose sight of tapes in the vault if they are vaulted by cycle control and the data set is a GDG that is no longer created. You could also have tapes that are vaulted longer than necessary due to the fact that the vault pattern holds them off-site longer than their expiration date. You can modify the TMEVLT03 report written in the CA Earl reporting language (which is distributed in CAI.CTAPECPB) to change the sort order to creation-date (CDATE) or the date the volume was sent to the vault (OUTDATE) by changing the CONTROL statement like the following:
CONTROL (P_VAREA) SKIP
(VAULT_OUT_SUBCODE 'VAULT SUBCODE TOTAL') SKIP
CDATE or OUTDATE
VOLSER
The TMEVLT03 report can also be modified to list those volumes that are off-site when the expiration date is less than the current date. To modify the TMEVLT03 to show volumes whose retention rules keep them off-site even though the file is expired, change the SELECT statement like the following:
SELECT EXPDT < RUNDATE
Note: For more information about CA Earl, see the Utilities and Reports Reference Guide and the CA Earl Reference Guide.
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