Using Archive job report and log information to verify archive contents

When any Archive job is run, it writes a report to the ARCHRPT DD, showing which candidate data sets were selected for processing. Archive jobs run in non-simulation mode also write information about the processing to the ARCHLOG DD.

About this task

As an alternative to using the ISPF interface's Data Set List panel, you can use either of these methods to verify archive contents:

Use the ISPF interface to list the data sets in the archive. For more information, see Using the ISPF interface to display a list of archived data sets.
Run an Archive Database report to confirm that the appropriate data sets were archived. For more information, see Creating an Archive Database report.

Procedure

Review the information that was written to the ARCHRPT DD, and if the Archive job was run in non-simulation mode, also review the information that was written to the ARCHLOG DD.

The following figure shows an example of the ARCHRPT information for an Archive job that was not run in simulation mode:

VER 1.1                                   A D V A N C E D  A R C H I V E  FOR  DFSMShsm             AXQRCHIV JOB09763
DATE: 10/10/2016.284  TIME: 05:11:01   CANDIDATE RECOREDS PASSED TO ARCHIVE TASK FOR PLEXDEV4             PAGE      1

 ML/2   BLK/ID   ORIG                 DATA SET NAME                 EXP    SIZE IN KB             RESULTS
<VSER> <IN HEX> <VSER> <------------------------------------------<-DATE-> <--------> <----------------------------->
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
START OF GRUP:         GROUP01

VD0892 0000012D R1PD13 APPLTS.AXQ.AXQMAN02.PS.F0098               ********         16 ARCHIVED TO C10439 BID=00000001
VD0892 0000012E R1PD04 APPLTS.AXQ.AXQMAN02.PS.F0099               ********         16 ARCHIVED TO C10439 BID=00000004
VD0892 0000012F R1PD10 APPLTS.AXQ.AXQMAN02.PS.F0100               ********         16 ARCHIVED TO CL0439 BID=00000007

SIZE OF PROCESSED GROUP:          0.000GB #DATASETS IN GROUP:                   3
*********************************************************************************************************************

TOTAL ARCHIVED:                   0.000GB #DATASETS:                            3 #GROUPS PROCESSED:             1

The following figure shows an example of the log information that is written to ARCHLOG:

AXQ00500I ARCHIVE INITIALIZATION STARTED
AXQ00501I ARCHIVE INITIALIZATION COMPLETE
	
AXQ00560I PROCESSING DATA SET - APPLTS.AXQ.AXQMAN02.PSF0098
AXQ00564I DS IS PROPERLY CATALOGED TO MIGRAT

AXQ00687I THE ARCHIVE DEVICE PRIMARY VOLSER IS C10029
	
AXQ00664I DATA SET SUCCESSFULLY COPIED
AXQ00536I ARCHIVE DB DATA SET RECORD SUCCESSFULLY WRITTEN
AXQ00537I ARCHIVE DB TAPE RECORD SUCCESSFULLY WRITTEN
AXQ00649I ARC0182I NO BACKUP VERSION(S) DELETED FOR APPLTS.AXQ.AXQMAN02.PSF0098
AXQ00538I BDELETE SUCCESSFULLY PROCESSED
AXQ00540I HDELETE SUCCESSFULLY PROCESSED
AXQ00674I DATA SET SUCCESSFULLY CATALOGED TO RCHIVE
AXQ00580I DATA SET SUCCESSFULLY ARCHIVED