Management and Control

CA 1 has the following management and control features:

CA 1 programs produce standard reports which satisfy the reporting requirements of most installations.
The CA Earl interface provides reports on any combination of data fields within the TMC or Audit data set. You define the report format, which can contain totals, headings, and so forth.
The VMS is used to efficiently cycle tapes through one or more critical off-site vaults. Criteria for holding tapes in the vaults may be different for each data set and for each vault.
Extensive internal and external security is available to protect the TMC from invalid access and real-time access to sensitive files.
Auxiliary Disposition communicates post-processing requests directly to the console operator or tape librarian and provides selective external label printing.
External labels can be printed automatically or on demand.
The pre-staging facility provides input and output tapes for advance preparation of production jobs.
Tape utilities provide the ability to verify tape header labels and initialize tapes.
Scratch Pool Management allows you to restrict nonspecific output access to tape pools of CA 1 controlled volume ranges.
The accounting interface provides for the automatic recording of job or step accounting information.