What's new for IBM® i 7.3

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SAVE menu enhancements

Options 21, 22, and 23 on the SAVE menu have a new Start date prompt field to tailor your backup. For more information, see Performing a complete save using the GO SAVE checklist.

Options 21, 22, and 23 on the SAVE menu now attempt to remount file systems at the end of the operation if you choose to unmount file systems for the save operation. For more information, see Performing a complete save using the GO SAVE checklist.

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Command enhancements

You can now specify OUTPUT(*PRINT) on any of the ObjectConnect commands. For more information, see Information in output files.

You can use a new command End Save Synchronization (ENDSAVSYNC) to end an active synchronized checkpoint and any participating save while active operations. For more information, see Using save-while-active to synchronize the saved data.

Libraries QWQREPOS and QWQCENT are now treated as user libraries. For example, they are now saved with SAVLIB *ALLUSR and are no longer saved by SAVLIB *IBM. For more information, see Special values for the SAVLIB command.

Information has been added about saving database files. See Saving physical files that are temporal.

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