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Producing Reports

CA VM:Tape provides seven predefined reports that produce reports using information from a CMS TMC. These reports use the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager Generalized Report Writer (GRW) product, and are loaded to the VMANAGER 195 minidisk during installation.

You can modify these reports or design your own reports, using GRW control statements to define the contents, sequence, and format of your reports.

GRW uses data from the TMC or Audit file to create reports about the tapes managed by CA VM:Tape. To create reports, you must have access to:

You can use GRW to report on data from the TMC, including the volume serial number (volser), data set name, owner, creation and expiration dates, density, and label type of each tape that is managed by CA VM:Tape. You can also use data from the TMC to generate a report that lists all scratch tapes.

You can use data from the Audit file to create reports that list information about how each tape volume was mounted (read-only or read/write) or why a mount request was rejected.

This section contains the following topics:

Predefined Reports

Using VMTGRW

Designing Your Own Reports