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Retention and Retrieval

Compilation listings, production reports, and SYSOUT can be retained on a long-term basis on disk or tape as a feature of the Expanded Retention Option.

You can retrieve SYSOUT easily from an online terminal using the online retrieval facility. You can select one or all generations of archived SYSOUT. You are presented with a selection list of the SYSOUT groups (a group of data sets having the same job name) to which you are authorized access.

You can do the following:

• Select a SYSOUT group for browsing or printing.
• Scroll through the SYSOUTs using the SYSOUT indexing and logical view features of the Browse facility.

  This type of scrolling allows you to automatically display only the portion of a SYSOUT that you need.

• Search for specific character strings with the FIND command.

Full batch retrieval capability is also provided with the SARBCH utility.