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Generating the Pull List

Whether or not CA VM:Backup generates this report depends on the following:

• The existence of the TPI REPORT record in the job template file to request a tape pull list be generated or to explicitly request that the tape pull list not be generated.
• The PULLUSER record in the VMBACKUP CONFIG file to indicate the user ID to receive a tape pull list report.

For end-user restores and special SFS and BFS restores, if a PULLUSER configuration record exists, CA VM:Backup generates this report and sends it to the virtual reader of the user ID specified on the configuration record.

For template restores, CA VM:Backup uses the information specified with the PULLUSER parameter of the TPI REPORT record to determine whether to generate the tape pull list report and what user ID to send it to. The following describes the action CA VM:Backup takes based on the parameter specified on the TPI REPORT record:

PULLUSER NONE

Does not generate the tape pull list report.

PULLUSER userid

Generates the report and sends it to the specified user ID.

PULLUSER SYSTEM

Generates a tape pull list report only if the PULLUSER record is specified in the VMBACKUP CONFIG file. If there is not a PULLUSER configuration file record, CA VM:Backup does not generate a pull list.

For more information about the TPI REPORT record, see the Template Programming Interface Guide. For more information about this configuration record, see PULLUSER Record.