The Work with Containers using BRM (WRKCNRBRM) command works with all or selected containers. You can select all containers or those that are open or closed. Your selection can be further refined by location. Output can be a display or printed report. The report that is produced is the Container report. The report, if printed, is written to printer file QP1ACN.

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
CNR	Container ID	Name, *ALL	Optional, Positional 1
STATUS	Status	*ALL, *CLOSED, *OPEN	Optional, Positional 2
LOC	Location	Name, *ALL, *HOME	Optional, Positional 3
CNRCLS	Container class	Name, *ALL	Optional, Positional 4
OUTPUT	Output	*, *PRINT	Optional, Positional 5

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Container ID (CNR)

Specifies whether you want to work with a specific container or all containers.

*ALL

You want to work with all containers in the BRMS container inventory.

container-ID

Specify the container ID in the BRMS container inventory that you want to work with.

Status (STATUS)

Specifies whether you want to work with all containers, open containers or closed containers. Open containers can accept additional media volumes and closed containers cannot.

*ALL

You want to work with all containers in the BRMS container inventory.

*CLOSED

You want to work with closed containers.

*OPEN

You want to work with open containers.

Location (LOC)

Specifies a location that you want to work with. You can specify a single location, containers that are in the home storage location, containers that are in other storage locations or all locations.

*ALL

You want to work with all containers in all locations.

*HOME

You want to work with containers in the location *HOME.

location-name

Specify the location that contains the containers that you want to work with.

Container class (CNRCLS)

Specifies the container class for the containers that you want to work with. Container classes define the types of physical containers that are used to store and transport physical media classes. Container classes are distinguished by attributes such as capacity and media class. For instance, there could be several container classes for eight millimeter cartridges. One container class could be CONT8MM10 indicating that this container class is used for eight millimeter cartridges and has a capacity of 10 cartridges. If you used another container for eight millimeter cartridges that had a 25 cartridge capacity, you could set up CONT8MM25 as a container class.

*ALL

You want to work with all container classes that are assigned to the containers you are working with.

container-class-name

Specify the user-defined name of the container class for the containers that you want to work with.

Output (OUTPUT)

Specifies whether the output from the command is displayed at the requesting work station or printed with the job's spooled output.

*

The output is displayed (if requested by an interactive job) or printed (if requested by a batch job).

*PRINT

The output is printed with the job's spooled output.

Examples

WRKCNRBRM STATUS(*OPEN) LOC(*HOME)

This command displays the Work with Containers panel where all open containers that are at the home location are displayed.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

BRM1917

Feature not installed.

BRM1921

Feature not licensed.

BRM4040

Access denied for user &1.

BRM40A2

BRMS product initialization required.