VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 9
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VISTA Plus Report Archiving
After running VISTACLN, you can store the removed reports to tape. This provides you with long-
term storage for all production reports. These reports can still be accessed in VISTA Plus using the
Select Archive window. For more information on this feature and on listing archived reports, turn
to the VISTA Plus for MPE User’s Guide.
VISTA Plus controls the archiving and restoring of requested reports with the VISTAARC and
VISTARST programs, and two job streams which run those processes.
When a report is removed from a folder and the Archive To Tape field on the report record is set
to Yes, the report is placed in an MPE file. The MPE file is stored in the group and account defined
in the VISTAINI file’s $ARCHIVE-GROUP-ACCOUNT option. These MPE files can be placed
on tape by streaming the VISTAARC.JOB.NETBASE job.
Archiving Data Flow with VISTA Clean
This diagram shows the data flow used for archiving to tape with VISTARST and VISTAARC.
Folder → Deleted Reports →
Archive File
↑ ↓
↑
VISTA Archive
↑ ↓
VISTA
Restore
←
Tape
VISTAARC Program
VISTAARC is a VISTA Plus archive program. The VISTAARC job stores reports removed from
folders onto tape. Before you run this program, open the VISTAINI file and make sure the
$ENABLE-ARCHIVE-TO-TAPE option is set to ON and the $ARCHIVE-DEVICE option is
set to TAPE.
When the job is started, you are asked to mount a tape on which to retain the archived reports. After
the reports have been written to tape, you are asked to specify the tape volume names that were
written on. VISTA Plus retains the tape volumes each report was written on. The restore archived
reports process uses the tape volume to notify the operator which tape volume to mount when a
request to restore a report is issued.