CA Dynam for VSE User Guide

Reporting on the Catalog
Reporting on the Catalog
CA Dynam supplies three standard, precompiled reports for reporting on tape
and disk files recorded in the CA Dynam Catalog. The three reports are:
• "Active Catalog Files" - ACTVFILE
• "Catalog File Definitions" - FILEDEFS
• "File Usage Frequency" - FREQUSE
The ACTVFILE report lists information about active generations and versions of
disk and tape files. It prints reports in volser, DSN, owner, user-id or systemid
order. Data is retrieved from the Catalog in DSN sequence.
The FILEDEFS report provides information about data sets defined in the
Catalog. The reports may display retention data, messages, data set
specifications, multifile organization and others. Data is retrieved from the
Catalog in DSN sequence.
The FREQUSE report highlights the frequency of use of files on both disk and
tape. Reports may be produced in DSN, days-old, days-unused or averageopens-day
sequence. Data is retrieved from the Catalog in DSN sequence.
To enhance their capabilities, several options are available for each of these
reports. Complete descriptions are provided on the following pages.
Active Catalog Files−ACTVFILE
The ACTVFILE report is a standard, catalog-based, DSN-entry DYNPRINT
report supplied with CA Dynam. It focuses only on active files and versions
under Catalog control. ACTVFILE ignores inactive files and versions on the
requested device class. How the files are defined in the Catalog is irrelevant.
Specific features let you do the following tasks:
• Print the report in five different sort orders, including various
administrative fields as well as file-id and volser.
• Include tape files, disk files, or both.
• Limit the report to an arbitrary number of files.
• For generation-type files, report on all, or a particular number of, versions.
• Report on any CA Dynam Catalog.
ACTVFILE is based on the older TDYNUTL LIST DSN=ALL report. But, it is more
flexible and enables you to produce several reports from a single scan of the
Catalog.
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