BMC Recovery Management for DB2

Backup and recover DB2 on z/OS data with minimal or no outage

Downtime is expensive, and unplanned outages can have grave consequences. You need to be prepared to recover quickly and get all applications back online. Because about 80% of database recoveries are the result of user or application errors, you need a local backup plan as well as a disaster recovery plan.

BMC solution

BMC Recovery Management for DB2 provides integrated tools to back up and recover databases and to analyze logs, including:

• BMC COPY PLUS for DB2
• BMC Log Master for DB2
• BMC RECOVER PLUS for DB2
• BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for DB2
• BMC SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE for DB2

BMC Recovery Management for DB2 provides exclusive features that are not available in the individual products, including recovery time simulation, online consistent copy, and timestamp recovery.

Features and benefits

• Mitigate risk with automated disaster recovery support
• Improve performance with advanced log processing and other recovery techniques
• Improve availability by backing up with no outage (Snapshot copy) and by physical backout recovery
• Reduce risk by simulating recovery scenarios so that when you need to recover, you will be fully prepared

Key differentiators

• Recovery time estimation
• Recovery simulation – practice recoveries on production databases with no risk
• Disaster recovery reporting – analyze results of last disaster recovery
• Online Consistent Copy – create a clean copy with no outage
• Timestamp recovery – recover to any point in time, even though there is no quiesce or quiet point
• Conditional Restart Avoidance for local subsystem recovery
• Cabinet copy – reduce the elapsed time of copy jobs by 50% or more