Re: How to check the duration of a backup list in BRMS in an easy way

Well, I looked at this the old fashioned way. I opened up two sessions.
On one I was in DSPLOGBRM. On the other I did a WRKUSRJOB ROB *ACTIVE.
Then I displayed the first job and looked at the open files. Had to hit
the function key to see the I/O details. There's one file open in QBRM,
but it's a display file so that's out. Hey, there's two files open in
QUSRBRM and they are logical files. I bet they have some potential.
Well, maybe.
Both files are logicals. That being true, the 'meat' of the data is in
the first field. This happens to be a 32k field of totally unformatted
data with imbedded packed data and whatnot. It's almost as if the main
programs processing that are RPG programs which handle the data internally
via multiformat file logic. There are some columns at the end which may
be applicable for record format id.
Now let's look at the call stack in DSPLOGBRM. First there's an ILE
version of a CL program, Q1ACLG. Then there's an ILE version of an RPG
program, Q1ARLG
Program . . . . . . . : Q1ARLG Library . . . . . . . : QBRM
Program attribute . . : RPGLE
Detail . . . . . . . . : *MODULE
Creation Optimization Debug
Module Library Attribute Date Level Data
Q1ARLG PTFBLD3 RPGLE 04/29/14 *BASIC *NO


Yep, you're going to play hell querying that data.


Rob Berendt