Re: BRMS purge?

[Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>]

In theory, even though a tape is expired BRMS will still retain the object
detail until the tape is reused.  You could restore from an expired tape
before it's reused.  It's dicey to rely upon that but it is there, unless
you tell it to purge that data when it expires.  The default is *EXP.
However the created job schedule entries change that to *REUSE.  How much
of a difference using *EXP would make, size wise, would entail some data
analysis.

Seems like you keep 400 days of logs.  That might be useful if you want to
use a year old tape and want to verify the log to see that the backup
didn't have any anomalies.  We keep 90 days of logs.   BRMS log file stores
a bunch of data into one column and substrings that.  Reminiscent of S/36
flat files.  Again, how much space that entails would require some data
analysis.

dspfd qusrbrm/qa1alg
                             Source Creation    Last Change
 Deleted
 Member           Size        Type  Date       Date     Time      Records
 Records
 QA1ALG            108539904        03/07/19 07/08/25 06:47:22     231136
    5056




On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM K Crawford <kscx3ksc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have some files that are related to BRMS.  They are getting very large.
> QUSRBRM.LIB/QA1ALI2
> QUSRBRM.LIB/QA1ALG
>
> I am seeing that  STRMNTBRM  RMVMEDI(*EXP) RGZBRMDB(*YES) could be used.
> I am using  STRMNTBRM  RMVMEDI(*REUSE) RGZBRMDB(*YES) regularly.  Should I
> change it to *EXP?
> What would I see differently if I changed it to *EXP?
> Currently on the STRMNTBRM I have RMVLOGE(*ALL *BEGIN 400)
>
>
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> Kerwin Crawford
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