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    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. ...
    11 months ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Future consideration

    PowerHA DB2 HADR SmartAssist

    Create a PowerHA SmartAssist for DB2 HADR.This would be useful for AIX and Linux.A SmartAssist for DB2 does exist but not if HADR will be used.
    about 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 0 Planned for future release

    MOVMEDBRM function

    would like to MOVMEDBRM stop to mark tapes moved to a different location if tape drive is not available. The command could in msgw state or failed with log. Use Case: We noticed issues when TAPMLB sometimes doesn't varied on after IPL.Wile MOVMEDB...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

    For VTL allow a bigger format like LTO7 or LTO8 instead of Ultruim3

    BRMS and Protect tier we can only format ULTRIUM3 Use Case: the actual standard for tape is LTO8 and for VTL it is ULTRIUM3
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    Confirmation message when performing a restore to original location

    This enhancement request is to add a confirmation screen or message when performing a restore back to the original location within BRMS. Use Case: Ideally this would be either when using the RSTLIBBRM/RSTOBJBRM commands when the RSTLIB parameter i...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

    Media prediction

    Media prediction – I would like BRMS to predicatively tell me when I am running low on available scratch volumes to be able to perform a backup. Use Case: I have numerous systems that I am in charge of. If I had a warning that I was "low" on avail...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 5 Not under consideration

    BRMS deleted objects

    BRMS recovery report (STRRCYBRM ACTION(*REPORT)) and restoration should exclude deleted objects at the point of backup. Logic can be implemented at time of Incremental backup of a library. If an object doesn't exist in that library at that point i...
    about 5 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    BRMS - Please enhance help text for error message BRM1771

    We tried to change the Expiration Date of a tape-volume, either to *PERM or to a date in 3 years. This resulted in the error message BRM1771, which states that the date-format is incorrect. But the date-format was correctly set. After raising an I...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 1 Not under consideration

    5733-ICC and BRMS - Use just one Image Catalog, instead of one per image

    Sometimes BRMS maintenance can't remove old random tape image catalogs created when saving to the cloud, and we need to run the tool one more time or remove manually to fix the issue. If using just 1 image catalog (even with a fixed name) we can e...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 2 Not under consideration

    BRMS: Allow parallel-parallel save and OMITS(*IGNORE/*PROCESS) for library objects

    Instead of simply listing *ALLUSR on our control groups we use a list entry which only has one entry, *ALLUSR. The reason we do this is because we do a parallel-parallel save. Basically that's IBM speak for allowing it to support saving across mul...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM i / BRMS 3 Not under consideration

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