BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for DB2

Reduce or elminate downtime for DB2 on z/OS recovery

Downtime is expensive, and unplanned outages can have grave consequences. You need to be prepared to recover quickly and get all applications back online. Recovery speed and data integrity are imperative. An action plan for recovery shortens the recovery time, but a recovery plan that provides physical recovery without application integrity is insufficient. You need to have a proven application recovery plan to respond to unexpected failures.

BMC solution

BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for DB2 automates the recovery process and generates optimized job streams to quickly restore DB2 on z/OS data. It allows you to define which groups of objects to recover. You can use BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for DB2 to automate recovery on an entire DB2 subsystem. Packaged applications often require that the entire subsystem be included in the backup and recovery process.

Features and benefits

• Generates the job streams to recover all critical DB2 system resources, including the DB2 catalog and directory, active and archive logs, and Bootstrap data set
• Automates the recovery process and eliminates time-consuming, manual, error-prone steps
• Provides disaster recovery support
• Allows multitasking of group recovery based on workload analysis (several recovery jobs can be submitted for one group)
• Assists in recovery planning
• Coordinates between multiple DB2 subsystems, or between DB2 and IMS and/or VSAM applications

Key differentiators

• Recovery time estimation for disaster recovery jobs
• Recovery simulation – practice recoveries on production databases with no risk
• Disaster recovery reporting – analyze results of last disaster recovery

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