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Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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Issue a warning or a report where a table or objects can be included in more than 1 profile

Since an application recovery profiles can cover multiple db2 objects e.g. say 20 tables, the same table can qualify for the object pattern in more than 1 application profile. when in a mass recovery scenario the first application profile will run...
11 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow connections to db2 luw databases to use SSL

Our company is in the middle of implementing an 'in-flight data encryption' for all database activity that requires SSL use. Other IBM products such as IBM Data Studio and Data Server Manager allow for connections to databases using SSL jdbc drive...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Fall back to previous IC if latest IC needed is unusable

The Db2 RECOVER utility falls back to a previous image copy if it finds a needed image copy unusable. This is also true if a recovery plan in Db2 Recovery Expert uses the Db2 RECOVER utility. However, if Db2 Recovery Expert uses a recovery plan th...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Rebuild Index for Redirected Recovery based on TARGET environment

A Redirect Recovery was done from one db2 subsystem to another. The jobs all completed successfully, however when the application started to run, they received a 00C90206 - "Inconsistent data" error. It turns out our target environment had two add...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add additional analysis to Recovery Plan creation to reduce overall Recovery Plan

We are currently testing DB2 Recovery Expert and our analysis is showing that we can have a very large Recovery Plan that includes objects that may not need reeovery. This might be due to the fact that Recovery Expert is analyzing the DB2 Catalog ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide an additional output DD for Recovery Plan messages that cause Plan create failures

We are testing Recovery Expert and as part of our POC one of our batch runs produced an extremely large amount of output in the ARYEXPLN DD (over 139,500 lines). The job ended with a RC=8 and an indication that a Recovery Plan could not be created...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

EXTFILE size needs to be in TCz

The size of the EXTFILE is actually hard coded in the skeleton. Other than reducing the scan range (currently 3 and 7 hrs), we can recommend updating the skeleton. For the transaction scan, you can edit SARYSLIB members ARYINBX (currently line 90)...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Recover of freed packages

We would like to be able to recover freed packages. One of our clients always performs bind from a temporary library to avoid cluttering. This means it can require some investigation to find the correct DBRMs, especially if a lot of package were ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to display the status of HSM

Since Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS makes extensive use of DFHSM it would be useful to view the current status of HSM from within RE. Questions such as: Is HSM operational? Have previous offloads been completed? Are there any issues with HSM before...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement for DB2 z/OS database backup/recovery

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Database Recovery is probably the most critical area for DBAs and Application Support teams. As important as new features and performance are, Recovery is absolutely crucial – Production data loss is unacceptable, long databas...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration