BMC IMAGE COPY PLUS

Copy IMS databases instantaneously

IMS data is growing, IT budgets are shrinking, and IMS experts are retiring. Continuous availability requirements make it difficult to take an outage to take image copies. But you need to take frequent image copies so that you can recover from failures quickly and without errors. How can you protect IMS data, ensure a fast, accurate recovery, and keep IMS online? 

BMC solution

BMC IMAGE COPY PLUS takes image copies of all IMS database types faster and more efficiently than the standard IMS utility. It can create a concurrent image copy without taking the database offline by merging a change accumulation data set with a previous image copy. Built-in Snapshot technology dramatically reduces – or eliminates – downtime required for image copies. BMC IMAGE COPY PLUS maintains full integrity of the copy without using online IMS system resources.

Features and benefits

• Improves availability without compromising data integrity by creating Snapshot copies allowing database update processing during the copy
• Improves productivity by automatically restarting failed tasks, dynamically creating and allocating data sets, and automatically handling database authorization
• Reduces tape-related expenses by compressing and stacking image copies
• Provides high-speed access methods
• Concurrently copies multiple databases and produces multiple output image copies for each database

Key differentiators

• Instant Snapshot - provides near instantaneous copies
• Snapshot – allows database update processing during the copy

Related Products

• BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS