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Working With Keyword Data Reports

A keyword data report is a CMS file produced by a CA VM:Backup job that contains records describing the results of that job. For example, a keyword data report for a backup job might include such information as volsers of tapes to which data was backed up, backup format used, and errors encountered during processing. These reports are designed for use by programs that process information about CA VM:Backup jobs.

CA VM:Backup maintains keyword data reports on the report minidisk (the CA VM:Backup 1E1 minidisk). A single keyword data report can reside in multiple CMS files on the report minidisk. In such cases, CA VM:Backup combines the CMS files into one report file when it transfers the report to the user.

Important! CA VM:Backup maintains report files and the pointers between them; never modify a report file manually.

Keyword data reports are preserved during restart recovery processing. However, during a cold CA VM:Backup system start, any keyword data reports that reference jobs that were running before the system outage are erased, along with the corresponding job data.

This chapter explains how to produce and obtain a keyword data report, and how to increase the size of the minidisk on which keyword data reports are stored.

This section contains the following topics:

Producing and Obtaining Keyword Data Reports

Report Maintenance