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Reporting and Logging Capability

CA Tape Encryption provides the following reporting and logging capability:

• Sample EARL reporting through CA Tape Encryption, and a procedure for performing batch reporting using these sample reports. The EARL (Easy Access Report Language) Service is a subset of CA Earl, a user-friendly report definition facility with the power of a comprehensive programming system.
• Online reporting capability through CA Vantage.
• EARL reports that track BES Key Index information and encryption activity in a CA 1 environment.
• EARL reports that track BES Key Index information and encryption activity in a CA TLMS environment.
• Detailed reports of encryption and decryption activity using the z/OS System Logger, which can be viewed through batch reporting on z/OS, and a debugging facility.
• The TBECMPCA utility provides a customized report on the effectiveness of the various compression algorithms. This utility accepts a tape or disk data set as input and compresses the data set using each of the compression algorithms supported by CA Tape Encryption. The utility creates a report showing the performance of each algorithm and identifies both the fastest algorithm and the algorithm that yielded the best compression ratio.