BRMS Systems Appear Inactive in a BRMS Network

This document explains how to correct systems that appear as INACTIVE on some systems after they were added to a BRMS network.

Example

You add new systems to an existing BRMS network; at that point, all systems show the correct status. For example, you have three systems in an existing network group:

SYSA	SYSB	SYSC	New system SYSD
SYSB Active	SYSA Active	SYSA Active
SYSC Active	SYSC Active	SYSB Active

On SYSA, a user types WRKPCYBRM *SYS and adds SYSD.

On SYSD, a user types the following commands:

CPYMEDIBRM OPTION(*TOFILE)

INZBRM *NETSYS FROMSYS(SYSA)

where SYSA is the system designated as the master system.

CPYMEDIBRM OPTION(*FROMFILE)

If all systems are up and DDM is working correctly between all systems, then things will look good. However, if SYSB is down during this time and SYSD cannot communicate with SYSB after the INZBRM command has completed, when SYSB starts up it will show the information in the following table.

Note: The job log might list error messages for communications to SYSB but SYSD and SYSA will have the correct information.

SYSA	SYSB	SYSC	New system SYSD
SYSB Active	SYSA Active	SYSA Active	SYSA Active
SYSC Active	SYSC Active	SYSB Active	SYSB Active
SYSD Active	SYSD Inactive	SYSD Active	SYSC Active

Resolution

On SYSD, do the following:

1.	On the operating system command line, type the following: CPYMEDIBRM OPTION(*TOFILE) Press the Enter key.
2.	On the operating system command line, type the following: INZBRM *NETSYS FROMSYS(SYSB) Press the Enter key. Note: On any BRM1519 - Entries exist for &1. (R I C) message, select an I to ignore.
3.	On the operating system command line, type the following: CPYMEDIBRM OPTION(*FROMFILE) Press the Enter key. This will make the status for SYSD correct on SYSB.

SYSA	SYSB	SYSC	New system SYSD
SYSB Active	SYSA Active	SYSA Active	SYSA Active
SYSC Active	SYSC Active	SYSB Active	SYSB Active
SYSD Active	SYSD Active	SYSD Active	SYSC Active

This document can also be used to correct systems that are showing an inactive status after normal operations.

Note: Users must ensure that the steps in the BRMS manual (SC41-5345) to add a system to a BRMS network were correctly followed.