Starting the Console Monitor

To start the console monitor, take the following steps from your system console:

1. To get to the BRMS Console Monitor display, select option 20 (Start console monitor) from the BRMS main menu at the system console. You will get message BRM1947 — Not in correct environment to start console monitor. if you are not at the system console when you start this function.

                          BRMS Console Monitor                                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Press F12 to cancel the monitor operation.                                  
    Press F9 to access command line. Control must return to this display        
          for BRMS activity to be monitored.                                    
                                                                                
    

2. This starts the console monitor. You need to take no further action at the console monitor at this time.
3. On the job scheduler, submit a job that performs the STRBKUBRM command. Following is an example of an STRBKUBRM job you can submit to the job scheduler.

                           Start Backup using BRM (STRBKUBRM)                     
                                                                                  
   Type choices, press Enter.                                                     
                                                                                  
                                                                                  
    Control group . . . . . . . . . . *SYSGRP       *BKUGRP, *SYSGRP, SAVSYS...   
    Schedule time  . . . . . . . . . .*IMMED        hhmm, *IMMED                  
    Submit to batch  . . . . . . . . .*CONSOLE     *CONSOLE, *YES, *NO            
   Starting sequence:                                                             
    Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . .*FIRST       1-9999, *FIRST                 
    Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . .*FIRST       Name, *FIRST                   
   Append to media  . . . . . . . . . *CTLGRPATR   *CTLGRPATR, *BKUPCY, *YES...   
   Job description  . . . . . . . . . *USRPRF      Name, *USRPRF                  
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . .              Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB           
   Job queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . *JOBD        Name, *JOBD                    
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . .              Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB           
                                                                                  
                                                                                  
   Submit a System Save to Batch Using Console Monitor                            

4. Type the name of the control group you want the console monitor to process in the Control group field.
5. Ensure that the Schedule time is *IMMED.
6. Type *CONSOLE in the Submit to batch field.
7. Review and change the other parameters as needed.
8. Press Enter to process the request.

The console monitor must be running when the STRBKUBRM is submitted to batch. Once the backup has started, console activities (F9, F12, F3) will be suspended until the backup finishes. Ending the console monitor (for example with sys-req 2) while the backup is running will also end the backup.