Many thanks,

I did read that redbook - it seems like it is coming down to the .opt file
or some other configuration that is preventing the 400 (tsm side) from
seeing our tsm server.

I'll take your hint on getting brms working first.




Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:51 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: AS400 brms client


I have never done this myself, but I recently helped someone with a LOT of
BRMS experience get the API working to send data to TSM.

You are correct, there is no "native" TSM client for AS400, you run BRMS and
install a TSM API so that TSM serves as your backstore for BRMS, instead of
local tape drives.

You must get BRMS up and working first.  And that's not so simple.
BRMS works more like a "traditional" backup and restore product, with full
dumps followed by incrementals.

BRMS working with the API is a lot like one of the TDP for
Oracle/SQL/Exchange etc. products working through the API; all the version
control is done by BRMS, not TSM;  TSM just looks like a peculiar tape
driver to BRMS.

We actually found several good redbooks;
one of them just published last October:

Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager on the IBM eServer iSeries Server, SG24-7031-00
Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: More Practical Information,
REDP-0508-00
Backup Recovery and Media Services for OS/400: A Practical Approach,
SG24-4840-01

The first one talks about setting up a TSM SERVER on iseries; but it also
has a chapter on setting up BRMS as an API CLIENT, which is the chapter you
need.  But again, you must get BRMS working first.

Hope that is some help.
Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
443-778-8769

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Dilbert/Scott Adams



-----Original Message-----
From: storage [mailto:storage AT THEATOMICMOOSE DOT CA]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: AS400 brms client


We are trying to backup an as400 to our TSM server on W2k.

On the as400 are the following:


DB2 databases
Domino 6
data other than savesys files

The only redbook that outlines anything remotely close to what we are trying
to achieve is the TSM on AS400 - it has a very small section on BRMS client.
This leads me to believe that BRMS in full must be installed.

I am not a 400 person but the resources I do have access to have never done
this.

Anyone with experience on this greatly appreciated.




Sam