What's new for 7.1

Graphical interface enhancements

This section lists the functions that were changed or added to the BRMS graphical interface.

• Support for the IBM Systems Director Web browser environment.
• Scheduling support for IBM Navigator for i Web browser environment.
• High Availability independent auxiliary storage pools enhancement.
• Enhanced the current e-mail function to support multiple e-mail addresses.
• Enhanced the BRMS log filter to provide the option to filter on control groups.
• BRMS maintenance feature in the Backup Policy now allows the user to run movement, expire partial volume sets and reorganize BRMS database files.

In addition, enhancements to the BRMS functions are listed in the following sections.

Recovery enhancements

• New outfile support parameters have been added on the BRMS restore commands as well as the BRMS recovery policy.
• New *COMPATIBLE special value has been added for the Allow object differences parameter on BRMS restore commands.
• A new parameter Saved auxiliary storage pool (SAVASP) has been added on the BRMS restore commands to provide better control on the selection of which library or object was saved.
• On the work with object displays the "Objects saved" columns have been increased to support more then 999,999 objects
• New Recovery report enhancements:
  • The "Verify System Information" step in the recovery report has been updated to include new instructions to use the Update System Information (UPDSYSINF) command.
  • The "Recover User Profiles" step in the recovery report, under the "Attention" section where the user is instructed what restore defaults to use, the user is asked to use *COMPATIBLE now for the Allow object differences prompt.
  • On the Start Recovery using BRM (STRRCYBRM) command, a new parameter Recovery element override has been added to allow the user to override specific sections on the recovery report.
    Note: Currently only system data can be overridden with this new parameter.
  • The objects saved column on the recovery report has been increased to support more then 999,999 objects.

Media services enhancements

• Better handling of non-BRMS media when a customers inventory has a mixed media pool of BRMS media and non-BRMS media.
• Increased protection on backups saved to virtual media that have not been saved off to physical media.
• The Print Media Movement (PRTMOVBRM) command now includes media scheduled to move including media that are at the beginning of the media rotation.

Advanced Feature enhancements

• A new High Availability enhancement has been added for independent auxiliary storage pools.

Network enhancements

• Increased management of media information flow between the BRMS networked systems has been added.

Install enhancements

• For new installs of BRMS, the *SYSGRP control group will now have a new BRMS IFS list that contains all the IBM directory information.
• A new BRMS IFS list named QALLUSRLNK will be created on install. This list will have all of the IFS directory information except QIBM/ProdData and /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData.

Information enhancements

The Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS) topic collection includes information about how to use the new functions, and includes improvements to existing scenarios and improvements to task-based information. In addition, the online help for BRMS has been significantly updated and enhanced. The Backup, Recovery, and Media Services for i5/OS (SC41-5345) manual has also been updated with these newest functional enhancements for users of the character-based interface.

How to see what's new or changed

In PDF files, you might see revision bars (|) in the left margin of new and changed information.

To find other information about what's new or changed in this release, see the Memo to users.