If discrepancies are found when performing an audit, they are related
to you by the following means:
- Scheduling error messages for full library audits are issued to
your TSO logon session, unless the scheduling error occurred before
any volumes from the library being successfully scheduled and that
error was severe enough to prevent any other volumes in the library
from also being scheduled. This early detected severe error is reported
on the ISMF panel through the help facilities offered by ISMF. Messages
contain the volume serial number (if known) of the volume for which
the error was found and text that indicates the type of error found
in attempting to validate an audit request.
If the scope of the
audit is volume list or single volume, scheduling errors are not reported
to your TSO logon session. These errors are indicated on return to
the ISMF panel from which the AUDIT request was initiated and can
be interrogated by using the message and help facilities offered through
the ISMF panels. See z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage Administration for
more information about the ISMF message and help facilities.
- Errors incurred while attempting to perform the physical audit
for any of the three audit scopes, (single volume, volume list, or
full library) are reported to your TSO logon session.
- After auditing a volume, the error status field (ERRSTAT) of the
tape configuration database (TCDB) volume record is updated.
- As notification that the audit has been completed and that the
error status fields can be reviewed, a completion message is sent
to you.
Note: The volume error status field contains only the last
error found; no history is kept.