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BRMS

DFRID added to the SAVRSTLIB and SAVRSTOBJ commands

The RSTLIB and RSTOBJ commands have the Option to DFRID so the SAVRSTLIB and SAVRSTOBJ should have it as well.
9 days ago in IBM i / BRMS Submitted

Backup policy needs to support TGTRLS(VxRyMz)

The BRMS documentation documentation says that the backup policy option for target rlease (TGTRLS) has three supported options. CURRENT The objects are to be restored on a system that is running the same release of the operating system currently r...
11 days ago in IBM i / BRMS Submitted

ENTERPRISE : Ajout de la possibilité de rétention des PDF dans l'IFS

Bonjour, Suite à l'installation du 5770-BR2, nous mettons actuellement en place la partie Enterprise. Nous voyons que lors d'envoi des rapports par @mail que le processus passe par une création de PDF dans l'IFS dans l'arborescence /tmp/brms//Ente...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / BRMS Needs more information

View to get a list of volumes along with media policy

Currently there is no way to get a list of volumes along with their media policy. We either have to use a control group method but that is not feasible where multiple control groups are used each day and backup strategy is complex. Additionally, i...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Future consideration

Prepopulate the device name for INZMEDBRM based on location

It would be nice when you take option #10 on the Work With Media screen (WRKMEDBRM) if the device name would prepopulate with the location name. I think this would be a time saver.
2 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Future consideration

Improve BRMS Drive Allocation Logic for Multi‑Drive Tape Libraries

When two BRMS control groups start at (or near) the same time and share the same tape library, both backup jobs may attempt to use the same drive. Even if multiple drives are available in the library, BRMS can assign only one drive to both jobs, c...
5 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

BRMS - Drive utilization

Actually we have TS4300 library connected to our IBMi LPARs. For backup planning we are using simple Drive utilization chart, which shows how many drives was used at given time in specific day in a past. We have only 4 drives and don't want to exc...
6 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

Add *ALLUSR in command RSTLIBBRM

RSTLIBBRM SAVLIB(*ALLUSR) - this is required to restore to another partition using BRMS network.
8 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

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 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 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...
9 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

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