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    Static Route Configuration support on Power 10 (eBMC) Systems

    With Power 10 eBMC Systems it is no longer possible to configure "static net routes", like on Power 8 and Power 9 Systems (also with Power 10 E1080 with FSP) to attached satellite location to prim. and sec. HMC environment.That could happend with ...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

    Add BRMS object level omitting to the New IBMi Navigator

    Heritage IBMi Navigator had BRMS object level omitting. New IBMi Navigator does not. Use Case: Our BRMS control groups
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

    Support BRMS and IBM Cloud Storage Solutions for i in a FlashCopy environment.

    The problem is that BRMS stores information about the image catalogs and cloud locations and status of the media in QUSRBRM file. The QUSRBRM data is copied back to the production system, but the image catalog data and associated IFS data on the b...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Delivered

    QUSRBRM.CG_BACKUP_STATUS missing CTLGRP *ARC

    Hello, QUSRBRM.CG_BACKUP_STATUS view is only showing backup related to control group referenced in WRKCTLGBRM *BKU. On our environment the management of journal receiver is done with CTLGRP type *ARC. We want to use the view QUSRBRM.CG_BACKUP_STAT...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

    Enhance the BRMS Control Group Exit Program

    In the BRMS Control Group Exit Program, add new exits related to how the control group ends (success/error/abnormal). This will assist with automation and monitoring, and should be called when the system has left restricted state (i.e. after resta...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

    Power Systems to support replacement of WWPN's on HBA Cards

    On Power9 the EN1C/EN1D cards use hard soldered SFP's; when a SFP fails the HBA must replaced, which requires SAN Zoning Changes These cards have the capability to replace the WWPN/WWNN, and we require a method to update the replacement HBA's WWPN...
    almost 5 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Delivered

    SAVLIBBRM and SAVOBJBRM *DTACPR option

    We have raised a call TS015223912 for the data compression on SAVLIB and SAVLIBBRM. It is found that SAVLIB/SAVOBJ have 7 options for user to choose the compression rate, but SAVLIBBRM/SAVOBJBRM only have 3. There is an Command for SAVLIBBRM and S...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

    WRKOBJBRM command enhancement with sort order

    You can sort the results from WRKOBJBRM with either *SAVDAT, *LIB or *OBJ, but regardless of the option the oldest will be displayed on the top.Must likely you are interested in the object from the most recent backups so I think there should be an...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Delivered

    Include messages in BRMS that are triggering errors

    Various warnings or errors cause BRMS to issue messages indicating a save is incomplete. But the warning or error messages themselves are not in the BRMS log, which means you have to scour the joblog to find the issues. I'd like to have the warnin...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 4 Delivered

    BRMS support for QIBM_CONJOINED_MUT_AUTH

    We would like BRMS support for QIBM_CONJOINED_MUT_AUTH so we do not have to enter passwords in BRMS and in the ADDSVRAUTE. It makes it more difficult to comply with password change rules as you would have to change a password several places in ste...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Delivered

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