BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS

Automate IMS database recovery management

IMS data is growing, IT budgets are shrinking, and IMS experts are retiring. Continuous availability and performance requirements strain maintenance schedules. A comprehensive backup and recovery strategy is essential because if an outage occurs, you need to be able to recover quickly and without errors. How can you protect IMS data, ensure a fast, accurate recovery, and keep IMS online? 

BMC solution

BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS provides a comprehensive set of tools to support image copy, change accumulation, and recovery management tasks, and is fully integrated with DBRC. The Recovery Advisor feature proactively notifies you of exceptions to user-defined thresholds so that you can ensure recoverability. With the Conditional Image Copy feature, BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS takes copies of only the databases that have changed, thus saving CPU resources and maintenance outages. BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS includes the following products:

• BMC IMAGE COPY PLUS
• BMC CHANGE ACCUMULATION PLUS
• BMC RECOVERY PLUS for IMS
• BMC RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS

Features and benefits

• Snapshot Copy – virtually eliminates outages for image copies
• Encrypted image copies
• Automated Restart - a failed image copy job can be resubmitted with no JCL or syntax changes
• Intelligent automation – eliminates risk of errors throughout the backup and recovery process and preserves data integrity

Key differentiators

• Recovery Advisor - proactively notifies you of exceptions to user-defined thresholds to detect and correct problems that affect recoverability of IMS databases and performance of RECON data sets
• Conditional Image Copy – backs up only the databases that have changed since the last backup, saving significant CPU resources and reducing planned outages
• DBA Toolkit - discovers all IMS systems and underlying databases and ensures that IMS control block source code is available.  
• JCL Generator – assesses database characteristics and product code to build JCL that will execute backup and recovery tasks most efficiently
• Provides GUI to manage IMS backup and recovery tasks

Related Products

• BMC MAXM Database Advisor for IMS