Verifying the contents of the archive

After you have successfully run the Archive job, you can confirm that the appropriate data sets were indeed archived.

You can use any of these methods to verify the contents of the archive:

You can review the report and log information that is generated by the Archive job.
- The ARCHRPT report is always generated by the Archive job, regardless of whether you ran it in simulation mode.
- The ARCHLOG information is generated only for Archive jobs that are not run in simulation mode.
For more information, see Using Archive job report and log information to verify archive contents.
You use the ISPF interface to display a filtered list of the data sets in the archive, and optionally, you can list the archive tapes. For more information, see Using the ISPF interface to display a list of archived data set tape volumes and Using the ISPF interface to display a list of archived data set tape volumes.
You can run the Archive Database Report function to list the data sets that are currently in the Archive Database and list the tapes where the inactive data sets are archived. For more information, see Using the Database Report to verify the contents of the archive.