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Archival of Report SYSOUT

This guide refers to any SYSOUT produced for a job using DD statements (both those contained in the JCL and those dynamically allocated) as report SYSOUT.

You can handle Report SYSOUT as follows:

• Directly by CA View as with the JCL listings
• Indirectly by archiving a copy of the report SYSOUT that has been produced by the automatic report archival feature of system extensions.

Whether you choose to archive reports directly with CA View or indirectly using the automatic report archival feature depends primarily if you want to print the reports or track the reports under JES.

Direct archival of reports with CA View is the easiest and most straightforward approach. You specify the archival selection criteria to CA View. The PRTCLSL initialization parameter in CA View reprints. Because CA View automatically reprints the reports, they are identified to JES under the name of the archival started task and not under the name of the creating job. When reports are printed, the CA View produced banner pages identify the creating job.

Alternatively, with the automatic report archival feature, JES directly prints the reports and are identified to it under the name of the creating job. The automatic report archival feature for "spin-off" to CA View produces a copy of the reports.

Do not have a channel skip statement in the last line of any page of a report. If a report has a channel skip statement at the bottom of a page, follow it with a blank line; otherwise, the channel skipping is not honored.

Note: For more information about the automatic report archival feature, see the section Automatic Report Archival later in this chapter.