FTAPE Command

The FTAPE command provides a tape pull list for CPU jobs. Only the database is used for this forecast.

This command has the following format:

►►─ FTAPE ─ ,FROM=(mmddyy,hhmm) ─ , ─┬─ TO=(mmddyy,hhmm) ─┬───────────────────►
                                     └─ SPAN=hhhh ────────┘

 ►─┬──────────────────────┬─┬────────────────────────────────┬────────────────►
   └─ ,DRMODE= ─┬─ YES ─┬─┘ └─ ,DRCLASS=(class1,...,class8) ─┘
                └─ NO ──┘

 ►─┬───────────────────────────────────────┬─┬───────────────────────┬────────►
   └─ ,JOB= ─┬─ * ◄ ─────────────────────┬─┘ └─ ,JOBNET= ─┬─ * ◄ ──┬─┘
             ├─ jobname ─────────────────┤                ├─ name ─┤
             ├─ (jobname1,...jobname10) ─┤                └─ mask ─┘
             └─ mask ────────────────────┘

 ►─┬─────────────────────┬─┬──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────►
   └─ ,SCHID= ─┬─ 0 ◄ ─┬─┘ └─ ,SYS= ─┬─ * ◄ ────┬─┘
               └─ nnn ─┘             ├─ system ─┤
                                     └─ mask ───┘

 ►─┬───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────►◄
   └─ ,TRIG= ─┬─ J ◄ ────┬─┘
              ├─ D ──────┤
              ├─┬─ JD ─┬─┤
              │ └─ DJ ─┘ │
              └─ N ──────┘

FROM

Defines the beginning date and time for the time interval to be forecast. FROM is required.

mmddyy

Defines the date.

mm: Defines the month (01 through 12). Required. Leading zero is required.
dd: Defines the day (01 through 31). Optional. If omitted, 01 is assumed. Leading zero is required.
yy: Defines the year. Optional. If omitted, the current year is assumed.

hhmm

Defines the time. Optional. If omitted, 0000 is assumed.

hh: Defines the hour (00 through 23).
mm: Defines the minute (00 through 59).

TO

Defines the ending date and time for the time interval to be forecast. Either TO or SPAN is required. If TO is omitted, SPAN must be specified.

mmddyy

Defines the date.

mm: Defines the month (01 through 12). Required. Leading zero is required.
dd: Defines the day (01 through 31). Optional. If omitted, last day of month is assumed. Leading zero is required.
yy: Defines the year. Optional. If omitted, the current year is assumed.

hhmm

Defines the time. Optional. If omitted, 2359 is assumed.

hh: Defines the hour (00 through 23).
mm: Defines the minute (00 through 59).

SPAN

Defines the length of the time interval to be forecast. This value is added to the FROM date and time-of-day to determine the ending date and time of the forecast time interval.

Limits: 1 to 4 numeric characters specified as hhhh where the minimum value is 1 hour and maximum value is 8784 hours

Required: Yes, unless TO is used

More information:

Common Forecast Parameter Descriptions