BMC RECOVERY PLUS for IMS

Recover IMS data quickly, using few resources

IMS data is growing, IT budgets are shrinking, and IMS experts are retiring. Continuous availability requirements demand that you be able to recover from failures quickly and without errors. Conventional recovery methods are costly and time-consuming because only one database data set can be recovered per job step and every recovery step reads change accumulation or log data sets. Furthermore, you can only recover to a valid recovery point, and creating periodic recovery points can disrupt availability.  How can you protect IMS data, ensure a fast, accurate recovery, and keep IMS online?

BMC solution

BMC RECOVERY PLUS for IMS performs full or roll-forward recoveries for all IMS database types faster and more efficiently than the standard IMS utility. It enables you to recover to any point in time, including times when databases were allocated for updates, with no manual tasks. BMC RECOVERY PLUS for IMS can concurrently recover multiple databases with one pass of log and change accumulation data sets and with multiple log readers for faster log processing.

Features and benefits

• Reduces downtime and increases availability after a failure by recovering full function, High Availability Large Database (HALDB) and Fast Path database types faster than the native IMS utility
• Enables true point-in-time recoveries while eliminating manual tasks
• Improves productivity by automatically restarting failed tasks, dynamically creating and allocating data sets, and automatically handling database authorization
• Automatically restarts failed tasks
• Produces  multiple output image copies during recovery
• Enables simulated recovery for testing recovery options and JCL

Key differentiators

• One-pass recovery - recovers multiple database data sets with a single pass of the change accumulation data set and/or system recovery log data sets, thereby reducing elapsed recovery time.
• Point-in-time recovery - recovers a database to any point in time you specify (not limited to a valid recovery as defined by DBRC)

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