IBM Mainframe Forum

[barb]

Looked through the CA-7 Manuals and cannot find a report that will list jobs in the databaset that have a Submit time. I can't believe a report like this is unavailable, so I'm asking here. Has anyone found a way to list only jobs in the database that have a Submit time associated with them?

Second question, also about Reporting... we had a need to forecast jobs that use Tape Drives. The results from the FQTAPE command were not correct at all, does anyone know where CA-7 gets this information? Is this a parameter that would be updated by us first, then CA-7 can perform reporting on the number of tape drives needed etc?

Would WLB help in this situation?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Robert Sample]

Do any of the reports in the CA-7 Reports Guide manual provide what you're wanting? If not, you may need to develop your own report in CA-Earl using the CA-7 log data sets.

[barb]

Thanks... I'll look into Earl. Is this answer for the Submit Time listing or the tape listing, or both?

[barb]

Looks like Earl report CA7ER020, may provide the info on the tapes, however our Mainframe is outsourced and I don't think I'll have the access. Will try and put the JCL together and give it a shot, but I have to build the JCL from scratch. They aren't running reports from Earl as of now, at least on our Lpar.

[Robert Sample]

Member L2EARL of the SAMPJCL library installed as part of CA-7 should have sample JCL; whether or not that JCL was customized for your site is another question!

[barb]

Hi Robert,

I was able to tailor the member L2EARL and run it... I'm having trouble figuring out how to customize a report though. I see the members that list the Record types. But how do I know what type of record a SUBMIT TIME would write too?

[barb]

also, if I'm customizing a report. What member name would I use instead of a REPORT ID?

CAI.CA7.CAIMAC(CA7ER020) <== do i just remove this statement, since I don't want a Pre-Defined report?

[barb]

I think it would be record type 75?

SJM - CPU JOB SCHEDULE RECORD.
TYPE X'4B' (DECIMAL 75) RECORD TYPE.