Including Additional Messages in the BRMS Log

BRMS stores messages in an internal log that show the processed BRMS command activities. This log file can be displayed with the Display Log for BRM (DSPLOGBRM) command. As BRMS processes backup and recovery tasks, BRMS initiates several system activities that are not BRMS-controlled processes. Any messages produced by these non-BRMS processes by default are not included in the BRMS log. A BRMS log only includes a few, specific messages from activities that are not BRMS- originated. Additional logging must be enabled to view these messages in the BRMS log.

If you want the BRMS log to include all messages that occur during a BRMS-initiated backup or restore operation, you must enable this function with an old-world call. Through the old-world call, you can obtain additional logging messages for the BRMS log for a specific backup/recovery job or enable the function for all BRMS backups and recoveries.

Old-World call commands in 5770-BR1 7.3 and 7.4 for additional logging function in BRMS are:

To display the current logging settings for BRMS:

If additional logging is not needed, you can remove the function on a specific job or across the system:

In 5770-BR2 and 5770-BR1 7.5 and later, WRKPCYBRM TYPE(*SYS) under Option 6 (Change Notification Controls) the 'Log all messages in BRM Log' field was added to support this media size value.