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Save and Restore

Proactive Monitoring and Alerting for Save Operation Object Limits on IBM i

Currently, IBM i lacks a built-in monitoring or alerting capabilities related to internal save operation limits, particularly concerning the number of objects processed in a single save request. While a library can support up to approximately 1,00...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Under review

Add a date created field or data added field to the WRKIMGCLG ouput

When looking at the content of a IMGCLG you cannot see any reference to the date the IMGCLGE was added or what the content is. To review the content you have to Load the IMGCLG to a device and then work through each entry to identify what the cont...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

allow Object attribute PF-SRC in SAVCHGOBJ command (today only use attribute like DSPOBJD)

This small detail would allow for more selective backups, especially in development environments where source code is of great importance. Currently, while selection by attribute is possible, the attribute used for selection is only PF for source ...
4 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Future consideration

Add support to ISCSI devices beyond VTL

Please, add support to ISCSI DVD and ISCSI disk volumes, so we can have more backup and restore options. ISCSI DVD support could allow to create a network install or backup/restore device for SAVSYS or Option22 operations. ISCSI Disks could allow ...
5 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Not under consideration

Allow to create and save to a Tape Image Catalog on remote server

Please, add support to Tape Image Catalog so we can save on a remote server (probably NFS V4) and allow migrate to the cloud when there is not enough local storage in the ASP. I know we can use a Remote Virtual Optical Image Catalog, but this only...
6 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Submitted

Restoring individual Authorization Lists.

When moving one customer from a SAAS LPAR to his own LPAR, you must be restoring ALL user profiles to get all Authorization lists. The SAAS LPAR is running multiple customers with over 1500 user profiles. If you want to move one customer with abou...
7 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Future consideration

Add a parameter in RSTOBJ command so we can restore files an can selecting attributes of files

its usefull because may be you need to restore a group of large files with similar names (Like MST*) and only need to restore Physical files.something like this: RSTOBJ OBJ(*ALL) SAVLIB(MILIB) DEV(TAP01) OBJTYPE(*FILE) FILETYPE(*PF-DTA) or FILEATR...
7 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Functionality already exists

Allow concurrent restores from a single save file

The suggestion is to be able to restore content from a single SAVF to two (or more) places at one. The use case is environment refresh. We refresh two environments at the same time and because time is limited and the restore process is the longest...
9 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Needs more information

Extend the SAVxxx and RSTxxx commands to allow an IFS file as the SAVF file.

The SAV and RST commands allow the value *SAVF for the device parameter, but the save file itself must necessarily refer to a file located in a library. Of course, it’s possible to use the CPYTOSTMF and CPYFRMSTMF commands to achieve the desired r...
11 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Under review

Enhance the File Expiration Date on SAV commands

Right now, you have two options with the File Expiration Date on save commands: put *PERM for permanent or specify a specific date. Ideally, you would want to say "30 days from now" but there's no way to do that without putting the command in a pr...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore Future consideration

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