RE: BRMS: argh!!!!!

Wouldn't you need BRMS Network to sync the data it thinks is on the tape, or save the QUSRBRM (I think) library to that tape and restore it before trying to display the catalog? As you said, 13 doesn't read the tape. How would the other system know what's on the tape? Maybe some of that was assumed as a prerequisite for DUPMEDBRM, though. I've not tried anything like what you're doing.
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Sean Porterfield


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From: Rob Berendt

I have a system I do a BRMS save to virtual tape. I ftp that over to another system and then I do a DUPMEDBRM to physical tape. Been working for quite some time now.

Like an idiot I've never tried a restore.

Put on some PTF's over the weekend.

Now the DUPMEDBRM fails.

Called IBM. Opened PMR. What IBM is telling me is that the DUPMEDBRM never really worked. To prove it they said pick one of those volumes and do an option 13 to display what is saved on that tape (No, this does NOT run a DSPTAP! It looks at the BRMS catalog of what is on the tape.)

Well, the option 13 tells me these tapes are really all blank.

Well, isn't that special?

Something in my mind is telling me that I did do the option 13 in the past and noticed stuff but now my confidence is shaken to the core and the only point of that exercise would be to cover my butt. To me, I'd rather expend the energy getting good backups.

IBM has opened a discussion group on that PMR.

I told them that it's not a sev 1 as I am not glued to the phone waiting in front of my computer 24x7. But whatever severity is immediately below that. I think I sufficiently expressed my angst.


Rob Berendt
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