You can issue a 'RECALL' command to see if there are any pending tape
requests.

You can issue a 'showdev tape' to see if the tape drive is 'owned' by the
back up job.

You can issue a 'showout job=#Jnnnn' (where 'nnnn' is the job number of
the back up job) to see the spool file ID of the job's $stdlist (sysout).

Then invoke the 'spiff' utility, text in the 'DFID' number from the
'showout' command, issue a 'list all' command to see the $stdlist (exit to
terminate)  See example below.

Regards
Paul Christidis


:showout job=#j3562

DEV/CL   DFID       JOBNUM  FNAME    STATE FRM SPACE RANK PRI #C
NOPRINT  #O55798    #J3562  $STDLIST OPENED       256      8   1
OUTFENCE = 14

:spiff

SPIFF A.00.01  (C) COPYRIGHT HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1992
> t 55798
> l all
  0
  1
  2 :JOB JINETD,MANAGER.SYS,SUPUTIL.
  3 Priority = CS; HIPRI; Time = UNLIMITED seconds.

HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 02/25/2005
03:26:45 PM:

> Ok, I've kicked off the backup on my system. I see the job running.
> But I have no idea if it's having problems, or if it's actually doing
> a backup. I don't have physical access to the machine and the staff at
> the Data Center don't really know much about the system. They couldn't
> tell me if the tape machine was even running.
>
> What can I look for to make sure things are working?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
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