Global options

The following specifications are optional. However, when you first start to process log data sets, you should specify search limits. If you do not specify a limit, the ARMBARC program processes all archive log data sets that are currently registered in the BSDS that have not been processed. BMC AMI Recovery Manager searches the archive history file to make this determination.

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Option

Description

LIMIT

This option specifies the limits for ARMBARC to use when searching for archive logs to process. You can express the limit as a number of hours, as a number of logs, or as a relative byte address (RBA) range.

When working at the disaster recovery (DR) site, you should change these limits.

RBARANGE

Use RBARANGE to limit the number of logs processed to those created within the specified RBA range. To process from a specific STARTRBA to the current time, specify an ENDRBA of FFFFFFFFFFFF.

HOURS

Use HOURS to limit the number of logs that are processed to those covering the last n hours.

LOGS

Use LOGS to limit the number of logs that are processed by the specified number of logs. Log data sets are counted backwards with the most recent archive log data set being considered as the first data set. This value ranges from 1 to 9999.

EMAIL

(Optional) Enables the user to request email notification. You are required to set up an email entry in the EMAILDST member of the CNTL data set.

  • EMAIL entry name EOJ_RC n:  The email entry name must pass the same validation as a PDS member name. The value of EOJ_RC must be between 0 and 254 .  If the ARMBARC RC is greater than or equal to the EOJ_RC, the End of Job email is sent. 
    The following is an Email output example: 

    Example
    PGM ARMBARC IN STEP ARM0000  IN JOB ARMJOB01 J0744296 ENDED WITH RETURN CODE 8


 

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