BRMS - How to keep system in restricted state after Entire backup

By kimot, 27 December, 2022

If you perform ENTIRE system with the help of BRMS (in restricted state) and you want the system to remain in a restricted state after the backup is complete. You will need to correctly setup BRMS Control Group for this.

On screen Work with Backup Control Groups you can use option 9=Subsystems to process on the selected Control Group

                          Subsystems to Process                    
                                                                   
Use . . . . . . . . . :  *BKU                                      
Control group . . . . :  ENTIRE                                    
                                                                   
                                                                   
Type choices, press Enter.                                         
                                     End                           
  Seq    Subsystem     Library       Option     Delay       Restart
                                                                   
   10    *ALL          *ALL          *CNTRLD    120         *NO   

And on "Subsystems to Process" screen create or edit sequence with Subsystem *ALL and Restart *NO.

This will guarantee that before backup is made, all subsystems will be stopped and after Control Group is finished, subsystems will not start.