Backup and Recovery Just Got Easier with BRMS V5R3

July 28, 2004 Debbie Saugen

Backup and recovery keeps getting easier as Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) delivers significant new functions in V5R3 to simplify and automate system backups and recoveries. BRMS is IBM‘s strategic backup and recovery product for iSeries and i5 servers. Packaged as licensed program product 5722BR1 (V5R3), BRMS is a comprehensive tool for managing the backup, archive, and recovery environment for one or more systems in a site, or across a network in which data exchange by tape is required.

BRMS lets you simplify and automate backups as well as manage your tape inventory. It keeps track of what

Control Break Programs, Version 2

July 28, 2004 Hey, Ted

Ken Orr taught me this one. Assuming an input file called SALES that contains the daily sales of all stores sorted by store number, department number, and, finally, sales person number. The file also contains item number and sales amounts.

This example shows where to print headers and footers of a report (excluding page headers and page footers), where to accumulate totals, and where to reset totals. The basic structure is a set of nested loops.

EVAL        CompanyTotal = 0
EXCPT       REPORTHEADER

READ        SALES

DOW         not %eof(SALES)

EXCEPT      STOREHDR
EVAL        StoreTotal = 0
EVAL        oldStoreNum = StoreNum

DOW         not %eof(SALES) 

Auditing Users with All-Object Authority

July 28, 2004 Hey, Wayne

I have found myself looking for a better way to meet our audit requirements and believe you can point me in the right direction.

For users with *ALLOBJ authority, I need to create an exit program that changes the job to log CL *YES and log their sign on date, time, user, and job number into a database file. On sign-off, I need to log the same information captured during sign on, to the same database file, and need to change LOG to *LIST and copy the spool file from QEZJOBLOG to an audit out queue.

–Mark

I understand that