The Print Media Exceptions for BRM (PRTMEDBRM) command provides information about volumes in the BRMS media inventory that have exceeded use thresholds, number of reads or writes and so on that are specified in the media class for the volume.

Based on that information, you can make decisions about the reported volumes. You can specify all volumes including exceptions or just volumes that are exceptions.

To use this command, you must have the Backup Recovery and Media Services for iSeries, 5722-BR1, licensed program installed.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
TYPE	Type	*THRESHOLD, *STATISTICS	Optional, Positional 1
VOL	Volumes to list	*ALL, *EXCP	Optional

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Type (TYPE)

Specifies the type of report that you want BRMS to print.

*THRESHOLD

The Media Volume Threshold Information report includes volumes that have equaled or exceeded the usage or read/write threshold limits set by the Work with Media Classes display. The report, if printed, is written to printer file QP1AVOL.

*STATISTICS

All other volume related statistics including media life, uses before cleaning and so on are reported compared against values set by the Work with Media Classes display. The report is the Media Volume Statistics report. The report, if printed is written to the printer file QP1AVU.

Volumes to list (VOL)

Specifies whether you want to list all volumes in the report including exceptions or only exceptions.

*ALL

The report includes all volumes including exceptions.

*EXCP

Only exception volumes are to be included in the report.

Examples

None

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

BRM4040

Access denied for user &1.

BRM4041

Access denied for user &1.

BRM40A2

BRMS product initialization required.

CPF9800

All CPF98xx messages could be signaled. xx is from 01 to FF.