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Using something better than DSPDBR

I am sure we have all used the Display Database Relations command, DSPDBR, to establish any file’s or table’s dependent objects. We can also use a SQL Table Function to give us more (better) columns of data than the DSPSBR command does.

But before I start giving examples of using this Table function I need something to work with. Let me start with a very simple DDL table:

01 CREATE TABLE MYLIB.TABLE1
02 (FIRST VARCHAR(20))

I do not need to insert data into the table.

Next I will create an Index over my Table:

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Converted to use QZBRMSEXIT and now my backups fail.

In version 4.5 we added the ability to better monitor BRMS backups by using a backup item exit program (WRKCTLGBRM, Opt 8) instead of a control group entry exit (WRKCTLGBRM, Opt 2, *EXIT). Often this results in surfacing errors previously ignored and thus the backup is reported as failed.

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