Re: BRMS Reports - Where do you keep them?

Rob,

I'm sure there is, but we do it manually right now. That's part of the
daily check we do on each customer. It's also partly how I check the IT
Interns I have working part time to see if they are really signing on to
the systems to do the checks I have laid out for them to do.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not a bad plan.
<snip>
Unlike Rob, we keep the same number of reports as we have tapes to match
in rotation
</snip>

Is there a tape expiration exit point that could be utilized to clean up
these reports?

Rob Berendt
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From: Jim Obeholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/18/2015 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: BRMS Reports - Where do you keep them?
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Others have given good suggestions.

My customers all get set up so the BRMS reports go into a transformation
services out queue (free from IBM) to create the PDFs. Then we usually
have a batch job that kicks off to FTP them to another server, usually off
site. Many of my customers use my IBM i system for that purpose. Many
also email them to me and their cloud based email. Unlike Rob, we keep
the
same number of reports as we have tapes to match in rotation, so any given
full/cumulative pair of tapes should have a report that goes along with
it. The auditors love that little item for some reason.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Gerald Kern <jp2558@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've had a process in place for years where my two most critical BRMS
reports (Recovery Volume Summary and Recovering The Entire System from

each

of three partitions) are converted to PDF's and emailed to gmail, lycos

and

a local ISP. We were a Lotus Notes shop but three years ago switched to
Exchange.

Occasionally now we get flagged/blocked as a source of spam. In the past
this never seemed to affect gmail - until today. Now I can't email (even
manually) my reports anywhere.

I've got the email admin looking into this, and I suspect (as they have

in

the past), they can call or logon to a site and get the blacklist entry
removed, but this seems to only be a temporary solution and after about

90

days the problem reappears.

So what is everyone else doing to ensure access to their BRMS Reports in
the event of a disaster?

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Thanks, Jerry

Gerald Kern - Information Technology
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IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
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