Working with ROBAR

The job submitters for ROBAR in the BS2000 systems are:

• tape-processing programs in BS2000

• the user program ROBAR-CL-SDF

When an MTC management job is issued in the BS2000 system, e.g. mounting a cartridge, it is filtered out by ROBAR-CL-DCAM and passed in the form of a message to ROBAR-SV on the ROBAR server.

ROBAR-SV receives the job that is transferred in the form of a message, evaluates it, and forwards it to the archive system. The so-called ROBAR rule files (RRFs), the files for execution control, are available in ROBAR-SV for this purpose (see chapter "ROBAR rulefiles"). These are device type specific files that contain definitions as to the actions that the archive system should perform in certain situations (when specific messages occur).

The ROBAR-SV software delivery includes a set of standard files. If the standard files do not fulfill all the requirements of your data center’s system environment, you can modify them on your own responsibility, see the section "Modifications in the ROBAR rule files".

You may not issue manually any BS2000 commands for MTC devices administered by the archive system while ROBAR is in use
(e.g. CHECK-TAPE ACTION=*REPORT or DETACH-DEVICE FORCE=*YES).

Commands for an archive system can also be entered via the MANUAL menu of ROBAR-SV’s robar menu program.