Cloud ASP Support Setup

Starting with the June 2018 BRMS PTFs, BRMS has been enhanced to use ASP and IASP for Cloud transfer operations. BRMS cloud transfers are able to create virtual image catalog entries for backups on an ASP or IASP instead of using *SYSBAS space. When using cloud with ASP support for ASPs 2 -32, and using control groups with the control group attribute  Unmount user-defined file systems  . . . *YES, the volumes will be left in *TRF after the control group completes.  STRMNTBRM needs to be run to transfer the volumes to the cloud.

The ASP for BRMS to use can be specified by running the following command:

CALL PGM(QBRM/Q1AOLD) PARM('CLDTRFASP ' '*SET ' 'nnnnnnnnnn')

where - nnnnnnn is the ASP name.

The ASP value can be displayed by running the following command:

CALL PGM(QBRM/Q1AOLD) PARM('CLDTRFASP ' '*DISPLAY')

The ASP value can be reset to the default value of *SYSTEM by running the following command:

CALL PGM(QBRM/Q1AOLD) PARM('CLDTRFASP ' '*REMOVE')

NOTE:

In 7.4 and later, WRKPCYBRM TYPE(*BKU) the ‘Cloud transfer ASP’ field was added to support this cloud ASP value.