BMC PACLOG for DB2

Compress DB2 on z/OS logs for greater availability and cost savings

Make data more accessible for recovery

This product:

• Eliminates multiple tape mounts, operator interaction and rewinding tape
• Uses a patented filtering process and the Extended Compression Architecture (XCA) technology to achieve up to a 95% reduction in the size of DB2 archive logs
• Reports on archive logs that are no longer usable by DB2 and logs that have been processed, saving valuable DASD and tape storage
• Provides an interactive modeling tool for your DB2 logging environment so you can evaluate alternative logging choices
• Allows you to make up to four copies of the original archive logs (two for local site use and two for recovery site use)

With BMC PACLOG for DB2, you will:

• Reduce network transmission times in support of disaster recovery
• Improve the availability of log data on disk and support speedier recovery processing
• Reduce downtime required for recovery by eliminating archive records not needed for recovery
• Gain substantial archive log media savings so that more archive log data can be stored on DASD, making the data more accessible for recovery