4. EXCEPTIONS › 4.3 Detailed Exception Descriptions › 03054: Tape Mounts Exceeded Step Standard

03054: Tape Mounts Exceeded Step Standard

FILE:             Batch User Activity
SAS FILE NAME:    DETAIL.BATPGM01
SOURCE LOCATION:  prefix.MICS.USER.SOURCE(DYSMFEXC)

SEVERITY:  Impacting            (SEVERITY='I')
MANAGEMENT AREA:  Workload      (MGMTAREA='WORKLOAD')

PURPOSE:  Identifies steps with excessive tape mounting
activity.

RATIONALE:  The mounting of a tape volume is both time
consuming and efficiency impacting.  Where possible, you
should consider online storage as an alternative,
particularly for small, frequently used data sets.  In
addition, you should review job control statements to
determine whether all the mounts are necessary.

DEFINITION:  This exception is detected when the number of
tape mounts exceeds the installation-defined value.

EXCEPTION STATEMENTS:  The SAS statements identifying the
exception situation and describing the condition are stored
in the source member named in SOURCE LOCATION and are
described below.

*
**  03054
**  TAPE MOUNTS EXCEEDED STEP STANDARD
*;
WORK=0;
WORK+PGMNSTMT;
WORK+PGMSTMT;
IF WORK > mounts THEN DO;
    EXCCODE='03054'; SEVERITY='I'; MGMTAREA='WORKLOAD';
    EXCDESC1=
    'TAPE MOUNTS EXCEEDED STEP STANDARD';
    EXCDESC2='SPECIFIC TAPE MOUNTS='
             || PUT(PGMSTMT,5.)
             || ' NON-SPECIFIC TAPE MOUNTS='
             || PUT(PGMNSTMT,5.);
    LINK HIT;
END;

THRESHOLD MODIFICATION:  Modify the value used for mounts as
follows:

    mounts - The target number of mounts.  A threshold of 4
       appears as:

          WORK > 4