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Toggle the way BRMS handles message ID CPD33A8

Dear IBM Team, Our organization supports a large number of IBM i customers, and our monitoring tools generate alerts whenever a backup failure occurs. I'd like to propose an enhancement that introduces a configurable option (e.g., a toggle setting...
9 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Add "Tape Library" or "Location" to the STRMNTBRM command.

The STRMNTBRM command currently lacks parameters for explicitly specifying a tape library or BRMS location. In environments with multiple tape libraries, each mapped to distinct BRMS locations, this limitation results in incomplete tape initializa...
10 days ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Needs more information

Lack of BRMS auditing

BRMS does not log changes made to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a specific table or journal. Having BRMS log changes to backup control groups, policies, and other configurable options into a dedicated table o...
2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Allow brms restore files without member

The operating system natively allows you to restore *FILE objects without members using the FILEMBR((*ALL *NONE)) parameter with the RSTOBJ command, which is very useful when, for example, you need to align test environments and are not interested...
3 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Add QUSRBRM objects details transfer as an option in the FSFC/FSR toolkit

Add QUSRBRM objects details transfer as an option in the FSFC/FSR toolkit
4 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

BRMS Recovery Process for when a 'Write-Protected Tape Volume' is mounted on a VTL during a 'BRMS-Restricted Backup' that causes an abnormal EOJ due to NO Built-in-Auto-Recovery.

We run a Monthly 'BRMS-Restricted Backup' and rely heavily upon it for a secondary/alternate system recovery option in the event of catastrophic failure. We use a 'VTL' as our primary backup device and the tape volumes contained therein are never ...
5 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Is a defect

Send backup volumes to two different COS buckets without having to double the space needed.

Good-morning, Use case: Customer is doing backups with BRMS, and they want to have the backup volumes in two different buckets, one bucket in Madrid and the other in Frankfurt. The only way to do this at the moment is to use DUPMEDBRM, but with DU...
6 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 6 Future consideration

BRMS 2 - for duplicated tapes, display the source and destination of the duplication

With BRMS, you can see which band is the source and which band is the target for duplicated bands under wrkmedbrm. With BRMS2, you can only see that the band you.
7 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

BRMS Media policy retention period limit

The maximum retention period in BRMS media policy is 9999 days now. However, there are some business required to keep the backup record for 30 years which we can only set the retention period as *PERM and review the retention period time by time. ...
10 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

Make Last Saved Info Object Information visible on production partition when BRMS backup occurs on Flashcopy partition

To improve Production up-time, we have adopted a Backup strategy where the IBM i production partition is flash copied to a backup partition. BRMS is used to do a full save of the backup partition to tape media. This means the SAVE object informati...
11 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

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