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- The Media and Storage Extensions (MSE) licensed program is not required to use optical media.
- BRMS does not provide tracking of opposite side volume identifiers or double-sided volumes. Each piece of media is viewed as a single volume.
- No optical support for the following BRMS functions: Dump BRMS (
DMPBRM), Add Media Information to BRM (ADDMEDIBRM), Extract Media Information (EXTMEDIBRM), Print Media Exceptions for BRM (PRTMEDBRM), and no reclaim support. - Only one Device (DEV) parameter can be specified. Optical support does not support cascading or parallel processing.
- Optical media libraries cannot be shared between systems in a BRMS network.
- The media policy option to ‘Mark history for duplication’ is restricted to *NO. BRMS does not allow duplication of optical history items.
- Duplicate media using BRM (
DUPMEDBRM) uses the DUPOPT command . See the restrictions on theDUPOPTcommand. - Optical does not support remote duplication. Duplicate media using BRM (
DUPMEDBRM) values for the From system (FROMSYS) parameter only support *LCL. - Optical devices do not support software data encryption.
- When saving document library objects (DLO) objects, such as documents (*DOC) and folders (*FLR), to optical media, separate Save DLO using BRM (
SAVDLOBRM) commands or control group entries should be used to save DLO objects for each auxiliary storage pool (ASP). BRMS has the same restrictions as the system save/restore commands.
Command
Supported by Optical Device
SAVSYS
DVD (No optical libraries)
SAVCHGOBJ of more that one library, including LIB(*ALLUSR)
DVD and optical library devices with UDF formatted media
SAVDLO of more than one ASP
DVD and optical library devices with UDF formatted media
SAVLIB of more than one library, including LIB(*ALLUSR), LIB(*IBM), and LIB(*NONSYS)
DVD and optical library devices with UDF formatted media
SAVCFG
All writable optical devices
SAVCHGOBJ of one library
All writable optical devices
SAVDLO of one ASP
All writable optical devices
SAVLIB of one library
All writable optical devices
SAVOBJ of one library
All writable optical devices
SAVSAVFDTA
All writable optical devices
SAVSECDTA
All writable optical devices
RSTCFG
All optical devices
RSTLIB
All optical devices
RSTOBJ
All optical devices
RSTUSRPRF
All optical devices