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BRMS

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...
5 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

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

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
12 months ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

Add a current location colunm of a tape on VFYMOVBRM

On VFYMOVBRM screen there is no information of the current location of a tape, so i need to check with WRKMEDBRM in order to known where are the requested tapes to put in the tape library. Would be easier and faster to have the current location in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

BRMS Web GUI interface needs to be made available for 5770BR1

Fortra has developed a web interface for BRMS replacing the old web navigator interface that was deprecated. This new interface is only available in the new software subscription for BRMS, 5770BR2 with PTFs SJ00271and SJ00272.Not every customer is...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration

BRMS ICC - create command for resending media to cloud location

Hello, With BRMS ICC we got transfer issue and location is showing the cloud one in WRKMEDBRM but in *TRF status. When executing the command STRMNTBRM MOVMED(*YES) it's not resending theses failed volume to the cloud. We need to manually retake th...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / BRMS Not under consideration