BMC RECOVER PLUS for DB2

Reduce or elminate downtime for DB2 on z/OS recovery

High availability is increasingly important for DB2 on z/OS applications. Unfortunately, outages occur, and when they do, the fastest and most efficient recovery is required. You need to be prepared to recover quickly and get all applications back online as soon as feasible. DB2 can produce massive amounts of log data for hundreds of objects, and all of those objects must be addressed during recovery, whether for a local or disaster recovery.

BMC solution

BMC RECOVER PLUS for DB2 streamlines the DB2 recovery process to save time and money. The exclusive CHANGE ACCUM functionality ensures a faster and more flexible recovery strategy than any other DB2 recovery utility. BMC RECOVER PLUS for DB2 executes outside of the DB2 subsystem, which reduces interference with DB2 applications and decreases contention for DB2 resources.

Features and benefits

• Uses image copies and logs to recover indexes
• Allows concurrent recovery of index space and table space partitions
• Allows selection of local or remote copies and primary or backup copies for recovery use
• Detects and accommodates stacked tapes and optimizes processing for tape- mount reduction
• Falls back to prior copy if current copy is bad

Key differentiators

• Allows point-in-time recovery through the exclusive BACKOUT recovery feature, without first restoring image copies
• Detects and allocates change accumulation files created by BMC R+/CHANGE ACCUM and allows accumulations and recoveries in the same batch stream

Related Products

• BMC Recovery Management for DB2