IBM BRMS for i

On the initial overview screen I am seeing a notice about 5 incomplete backups.

What defines a backup as "Incomplete"?  

What am I supposed to do with this information?  Most of these are much older than our tape retention.  The oldest is over a decade old.

These are all old enough that the VIEW BRMS LOG is fruitless.wrk

The underlying SQL is 

SELECT  CONTROL_GROUP,  TYPE,  SAVE_START,  SAVE_END,  BACKUP_MINUTES,  OBJECTS_SAVED,  SAVE_STATUSFROM  QUSRBRM.CG_STATUSWHERE  SAVE_STATUS = 'INCOMPLETE'ORDER BY  SAVE_END DESC

I wonder what your log retention is set to.....in any event - here's a link to the doc that explains the "incomplete" 

QUSRBRM.BACKUP_STATUS view SQL service - IBM Documentation

As far as "what to do" - nothing if you don't care about it :-) 

if you have recent saves that are showing incomplete - might need to refer to the job log of the backup to see why the backup is not able to save all objects. (i.e - object locks, commits, etc)

On the initial overview screen I am seeing a notice about 5 incomplete backups.

What defines a backup as "Incomplete"?  

What am I supposed to do with this information?  Most of these are much older than our tape retention.  The oldest is over a decade old.

These are all old enough that the VIEW BRMS LOG is fruitless.wrk

The underlying SQL is 

SELECT  CONTROL_GROUP,  TYPE,  SAVE_START,  SAVE_END,  BACKUP_MINUTES,  OBJECTS_SAVED,  SAVE_STATUSFROM  QUSRBRM.CG_STATUSWHERE  SAVE_STATUS = 'INCOMPLETE'ORDER BY  SAVE_END DESC

Incompletes show up as *QUAL on PRTRPTBRM.  Some of those entries are quite dated.  One run with *QUAL is over a decade old and the media is gone (we changed VTL models since then).

IBM/Fortra is saying this:

• When using PRTRPTBRM TYPE(*CTLGRPSTAT) the following entries change:

  • Entries with a Save Status of *NOERR or *QUAL are removed one year after the backup history expires, even if the media has been reused.

  • Entries with a Save Status of *ACT are changed to *ERROR if the job no longer exists.

  • Entries with a Save Status of *ERROR or *CANCL are removed after 30 days.

    That doesn't seem to be happening.  I'm still working with them on this.

    https://helpsystemswiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IWT/pages/165642258/Backup+Control+Group+Status+Report

I wonder what your log retention is set to.....in any event - here's a link to the doc that explains the "incomplete" 

QUSRBRM.BACKUP_STATUS view SQL service - IBM Documentation

As far as "what to do" - nothing if you don't care about it :-) 

if you have recent saves that are showing incomplete - might need to refer to the job log of the backup to see why the backup is not able to save all objects. (i.e - object locks, commits, etc)

On the initial overview screen I am seeing a notice about 5 incomplete backups.

What defines a backup as "Incomplete"?  

What am I supposed to do with this information?  Most of these are much older than our tape retention.  The oldest is over a decade old.

These are all old enough that the VIEW BRMS LOG is fruitless.wrk

The underlying SQL is 

SELECT  CONTROL_GROUP,  TYPE,  SAVE_START,  SAVE_END,  BACKUP_MINUTES,  OBJECTS_SAVED,  SAVE_STATUSFROM  QUSRBRM.CG_STATUSWHERE  SAVE_STATUS = 'INCOMPLETE'ORDER BY  SAVE_END DESC