RE: BRMS: USEDUPMED

["Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Data Area: QUSRBRM/Q1AIGNRDUP

USEDUPMED was introduced in V5R4M0 to indicate that you wanted to include either the original save media or the duplicate save media, but not both. Create this data area if you want to include both the original save media and the duplicate save media in your recovery report Recovery Volume Summary Report (QP1A2RCY) when USEDUPMED(*YES) is specified.

CRTDTAARA DTAARA(QUSRBRM/Q1AIGNRDUP) TYPE(*CHAR)            

Paul                                      

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 11:24 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: BRMS: USEDUPMED

When we transitioned from LTO to VTL we changed our program which generates our BRMS recovery report to
USEDUPMED(*YES)

I've discovered that *YES is like saying *ONLY.  It means ONLY use duplicate media.  It will not show you the original media for the recovery report.
Now that we've completed our transition and have done a full system save we should change our defaults back to USEDUPMED(*NO).  If we need to run a recovery using one of the older duplicated tapes we can just change that for a one off and we won't need to change the program.

The online help on STRRCYBRM is quite clear on this, using highlighting and all.

Time to go change my daily program which generates our recovery reports...

The problem was that our recovery reports were only showing our full system save from June (which was originally done to LTO and DUPMEDBRM to
VTL) and not our full system save in September.


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to:  2505 Dekko Drive
          Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to:  Dock 108
          6928N 400E
          Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for any subscription related questions.