VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Archiving Reports
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After the reports are placed on tape, the MPE files holding the reports are purged. The following
command is used to start the VISTA Plus archive job:
:STREAM VISTAARC.JOB.NETBASE
VISTARST Program
VISTARST is a VISTA Plus restore program. The VISTARST job restores reports from tape that
have been requested by a VISTA Plus user. You can request reports to restore by entering the Select
Archive screen, tagging the reports to restore, and pressing the Restore Reports function key.
Restored reports are placed in the folder from which they were removed.
Restore requests are stored in the RSTPIPE.PUB.NETBASE file. This file is sorted by tape
volume name and groups all reports on the same tape together. An MPE restore command is issued
for each tape volume to restore reports on the same volume with one command. For each restore
command issued, the operator is told which tape volume to mount.
When reports are restored, they are placed in MPE permanent files. The reports are then merged
into the folder file they were originally removed from by the VISTA Plus clean process. The MPE
files are purged after the merge process is completed.
After the reports have been restored, you can view the restored reports by opening the folder the
reports are located in.