Re: Backup and Restore Manager V1.2 startup problem

[David Boyes]

*** Received device 0181, a 3590-11 which is empty or not ready. write-enabled,
and positioned at load point.
*** Return code 32 attempting to obtain VOL1 label.
*** "TAPE DVOL1" replied: "DMSP2C431E TAP1(181) VOL1 label missing"



You gave it a unlabeled tape. BRM expects IBM SL tapes. You need to label the 
tape with TAPE WVOL1 before you can use it with BRM.

Re: Backup and Restore Manager V1.2 startup problem

[Tracy Dean]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Lu GL Gao wrote:

> Our client installed Backup and Restore Manager V1.2 on z/VM V5.4. We h
ad 
> successfully installed and configured this tool. 

> However when I firstly logon BKRBKUP user and execute its PROFILE EXEC,

> many error messages were shown like this: 
> ---
-
> BKRCAT9174E No value has been specified for variable "MD5TEXT" in file 

> BKRSYSTM 
> CONFIG. 
> *-* 'PIPE CMS BKRMD5' FoundFN FoundFT FoundFM '| VAR MD5TEXT' 
> +++ RC(-3) +++ 

This is a known error in the most recent SDO that includes Backup and
Restore Manager for z/VM V1.2.  (Customers installing previous levels of 
the
SDO and then applying service themselves will not see this error.)

The file BKRMD5 MODULE is missing from the 5697J06B 491 and 591 disks. As
 a
work around, please copy BKRMD5 MODULE from the 5697J06B 492 disk to the 
491
and 591 disks.

Tracy Dean, IBM Product Manager
 

Re: Backup and Restore Manager V1.2 startup problem

[Nick Laflamme]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Lu GL Gao wrote:

> Our client installed Backup and Restore Manager V1.2 on z/VM V5.4. We had 
> successfully installed and configured this tool. 
> However when I firstly logon BKRBKUP user and execute its PROFILE EXEC, many 
> error messages were shown like this: 
> 
> BKRCAT9174E No value has been specified for variable "MD5TEXT" in file 
> BKRSYSTM 
> CONFIG. 
> *-* 'PIPE CMS BKRMD5' FoundFN FoundFT FoundFM '| VAR MD5TEXT' 
> +++ RC(-3) +++ 
> 
> My installation and configuration is strictly basd on Installation Guide and 
> Administration Guide, and there was no error message during installing 
> process. 
> 
> 
> 
> The complete error information: (See attached file: BKRBKUP.LOGON.ERROR)
> 
> 
> The PROFILE EXEC file for BKRBKUP: (See attached file: BKRBKUP.PROFILE.EXEC)
> 
> 
> The configuration file for Backup and Restore Manager: (See attached file: 
> BKRSYSTM.CONFIG)
> 

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Based solely on my knowledge of VM, without any specific knowledge of the 
product to which you refer, I'd conclude you haven't finished installing or 
configuring the user interface for this product so that your CMS users can see 
it. 

A return code of -3 means "command not found", such as BKRMD5 in this case. 
Something it trying to compute an MD5 checksum, but it can't find the program 
to do so. Maybe it got installed on 19E, but you forgot to save CMS after you 
put it out there? Maybe it's on a minidisk you don't have accessed? Maybe the 
server released its minidisks and re-accessed the ones it wants, dropping where 
you had installed BKRMD5 and the rest of the odds and ends? That's the first 
thing I'd track down about this set of problems: why can't "it" find BKRMD5, 
which is probably a MODULE. 

Sir Nick the Ardent
VM SysProg Emeritus, since VM/SP 3 (1984)