Re: BRMS: FTPing virtual images to another system.

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

IBM is discouraging me from putting SAVMEDIBRM in a control group. 
Unpredictable results may occur.
http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/DocNumber/574398299

They want me to take my last step, any my second to the last step out, 
combine them in a CL program and make that my last step.  If you do not do 
SAVMEDIBRM as a control group step, but leave it as part of the control 
group itself, it does it before the last step.  Therefore the SAVMEDIBRM 
info will be on the virtual tape.

      Backup 
Seq   Items       Exit command 
 
  10  *EXIT       addlible routines 
  20  *EXIT       ROUTINES/DOWNDOMSVR OMITSRV(SAMETIME03 INTERNOTES)
  30  *EXIT       CHGMEDBRM VOL(VRT001) EXPDATE('01/01/01') 
  40  *EXIT       INZMEDBRM DEV(VRTDEV) NEWVOL(VRT001) MEDCLS(VRT256
  50  MON_FRI 
  60  *EXIT       STRDOMSVR SERVER(xqp02) 
  70  *EXIT       STRDOMSVR SERVER(xdek01) 
  80  *EXIT       ROUTINES/FTP400CMD RMTSYS(GDWEB2) INFILP(N) QINFIL
  90  *EXIT       SNDMSG MSG('Backup is complete on GDWEB') TOUSR(PE

Of course, my first several steps are giving them grey hairs but they're 
working fine for me.  They want me to bust them out into a CL program 
also.  (See URL at top).

The first sequence is pre control group and the last sequence is post 
control group.

I know that initializing BRMS media is normally not done, and I make take 
that out, I was initially thinking that it would make the virtual media 
smaller and only take longer to ftp if it needed it.  I now know better 
and probably should take it out.

Rob Berendt