BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS

Automate IMS recovery scenarios

Because no two recoveries are the same, it is difficult to become an expert in recovering databases. The recovery process for large databases can take hours, and the resulting downtime can be expensive and result in lost customers.   How can you manage a recovery strategy to ensure fast recoveries that maintain data integrity?

BMC solution

BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS automates the recovery process, reducing system downtime and providing savings in time and resources usage. It simplifies the recovery management process, using group processing to ensure consistent activity across related databases. With BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS, you can manage various recovery scenarios and prepare strategies for specific situations, including disaster recovery.

Features and benefits

• Eliminates manual recovery setup tasks
• Enables synchronized recovery by creating standard recovery points based on user-defined timing and grouping
• Enables creation of a consistent disaster recovery point by synchronizing log switches for multiple IMS systems
• Reduces time and effort required for nonstandard recovery situations by supporting interactive analysis of available recovery points and logs
• Maintains up-to-date allocation information and quickly reallocates IMS databases when needed
• Reduces time for disaster recovery by automatically preparing the DBRC RECON data set for IMS startup and database recovery at a disaster recovery site

Key differentiators

• Application groups – enables you to perform backup and recovery operations for all the databases in a user-defined group
• Synchronized recovery – works with other BMC products to synchronize recovery across IMS, DB2, and VSAM data structures

Related Products

• BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS