RE: BRMS: How to omit objects from daily backup?

Let's say you have this
HUGELIB - Takes a very significant percentage of your disk. Contains many
very large objects.
TINYLIB1
TINYLIB2
...
When you use *ALLUSR and not a list it will put all of HUGELIB on one
drive. The other libraries will be spread across the remaining drives,
still with one drive per library. So, in theory, your HUGELIB backup can
still be going hours after the other drives are done being used. Waste of
resources. This is called parallel-serial or "multiple-library parallel"
When you do a list instead of *ALLUSR then the contents of HUGELIB are
also spread out across multiple drives. This is called parallel-parallel.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzai8/rzai8_bku_parallel.htm
There's nothing stopping you from using *ALLUSR as the single entry in
that list, and still getting the benefit of parallel-parallel.
WRKLBRM TYPE(*BKU)
Use . . . . . . . . . : *BKU
List name . . . . . . : ALLUSRLIB
Text . . . . . . . . : *ALLUSR listwise to do a parallel-parallel save
Seq Library Object Type Attribute Member Inc/Exc
10 *ALLUSR *ALL *ALL *ALL *ALL *INC


The problem is that the GUI is hardcoded to check for *ALLUSR and not a
list to allow you to then add omits which can be ignored by
OMITS(*IGNORE).
But, when you add omits directly into the WRKLBRM they are not ignored by
OMITS(*IGNORE)

We have a few REALLY big libraries. We go gonzo retaining journal
receivers for auditing purposes. Dozens of these receivers are each
double digit GB size.
We have three times the size of our ERP live data tied up in journal
receivers.

PRTDSKINF RPTTYPE(*LIB)

% of Size in
Library Owner Disk 1000 bytes
#MXJRN ROB 31.99 2420871921.7
QGPL QSYS 22.65 1714334363.6
ERPLXF SSA 9.48 717629558.8
ERPLXSAVF SSA 2.90 219380514.8
ERPLXUSRF SSA 1.82 137990967.3
EXPRESS SSA 1.14 86506025.0
YEAREND SSA 1.08 81502851.1
EXPRESSD SSA 1.07 81153028.1
GDIDIVF SSA .79 59856560.1
ROBG70 SSA70 .54 40828203.0
ROUTINES ROB .49 36827066.4
...

PRTDSKINF RPTTYPE(*LIB) OBJ(*ALL) MINSIZE(99999)
Object Type Owner Library 1000 bytes
#MXJRN *LIB ROB 2420871921.7
ALLRCV0583 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13175095.3
ALLRCV0570 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13160939.5
ALLRCV0513 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13148618.8
ALLRCV0464 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13147832.3
ALLRCV0451 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13142327.3
ALLRCV0569 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13137346.6
ALLRCV0482 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13133099.0
ALLRCV0549 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13132365.8
ALLRCV0479 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13128958.0
ALLRCV0577 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13128695.8
ALLRCV0485 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13126598.7
ALLRCV0457 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13126074.4
ALLRCV0546 *JRNRCV ROB .54 13124501.5


Rob Berendt