Archiving Session Details
You can display detailed information for each archiving session.
Features
General Information
System ID for the system used for the archiving session
Number of archiving sessions
Date, time, and user for the session
Number of the spool assigned to the session
Current Jobs for the Session
This area only appears if there are still active read or write jobs for the current session. To go to the job overview, choose Display Job
. Here you can release, cancel, or delete individual jobs.
For the current job, the following job activities can be indicated:
Active: The job has status “ready”, “scheduled”, or “active”.
Terminated: The job was terminated.
Changeable Settings
You can create a note and a long text for the session or mark it for archiving or as invalid. You should mark a session as invalid
if, for example. you discover after archiving that the data selection was incorrect. Invalid sessions are no longer offered for archive selection.
Mark Several Archiving Sessions for Archiving or as Invalid
You can use the report RSARCH_FLAG_SESSIONS to mark several archiving sessions
For archiving
As invalid
When selecting the archiving sessions, you can also differentiate between sessions whose archive files are in a storage system, and sessions for which no accessible archive files exist.
You can use this report, for example, to mark all the archiving sessions created prior to a specified date for archiving or as invalid. This can be useful, for example, as an initial run when archiving archive administration data using the archiving object BC_ARCHIVE
.
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