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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...
27 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 3 Future consideration
309 VOTE

*ESCAPE messages for SAVLIB

We have received MONMSG for CPF3795 in every SAVLIB running in our CL program: https://ecurep.mainz.de.ibm.com/rest/download/28061%2C100%2C838/2018-04-06/28061.100.838.SOURCE.txt?astext=true&fileSize=83568 But, when CPF3795 is reported saving ...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Under review

Enable the usage of non ephemeral/static ports when using ObjectConnect over TCP/IP

Currently, IBMi ObjectConnect over TCP/IP uses TCP port 9841. Once the connection is established, it attempts to negotiate a data port connection within the ephemeral port range of 5000-65535. This configuration is not practical when a firewall ex...
10 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 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...
29 days ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Functionality already exists

SAVSYS show progress

Some customers use an USB thumb drive to run a SAVSYS on a monthly base. With slow USB sticks this process needs 15+ minutes without any progress display. Some customers are curious if it is still working. Use Case: show progress on save to avoid ...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 5 Future consideration

Enable RST PATTERN with object type

Sometimes we need to restore only the DIR structure (without *STMF object type) from a saved Ifs's folder (Cmd SAV). Using SUBTREE(*DIR) restore only the firt level of directory. Enabling the command to accept something like: RST DEV('/QSYS.LIB/QG...
11 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

Enhance all SAVE and BRMS SAVE commands to be able to put an identical stream to other tapes

We recently found out that a DUPTAP needs twice as long as the SAVE which is sometimes a regulatory requirement. If the backup takes very long than this might result in 24 hours not being enough to complete the task (if the backup takes more than ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Submitted

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...
9 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 1 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in IBM i / Save and Restore 0 Submitted

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