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Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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RTO and object details on ongoing recovery

We need to be able to predict how long time a recovery will take, and follow how long time is left as the recovery is going on. We also need to have an overview of which objects are unrecoverable, or if recovery has failed for other reasons.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

avoid sort of imagecopy in recovery scenarios RFE 124061

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124061 We still had the sort work dd statements generated with 9 datasets each and Cyl,(900,900) but still jobs failed in certain cases when using DB2SORT (a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Db2 templates in Recovery Expert

We want to be able to use templates for image copy (and other) data sets in utilitiies in Recovery Expert.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Delivered

Defines VSAM clusters for the Db2 defined objects (as optional)

Reference to Case number TS002663644 This is for using "Db2 Recovery Expert disaster recovery feature - Recovering at the remote site using DB2 image copies": During Disaster Recovery tests some Db2 subsystems found indoubt and inflight threads...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Db2 archive log mode(quiesce)

Reference to Case number TS002663644 This is for using "Db2 Recovery Expert disaster recovery feature - Recovering at the remote site using DB2 image copies": During Disaster Recovery tests some Db2 subsystems found indoubt and inflight threads ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Batch generation of recovery plans for massive recovery RFE 124060

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124060 Customer has the need to do mass recovery and wants to automate the whole process.That requires the capability to have a full blown batch capability ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhancement request for #JC1 job

This is an enhancement request for the *#JC1 job. As currently designed, if any step within the job were to fail, the job continues executing the subsequent steps. As a result (during a DR situation), ALL steps would re-executed once the issue is ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhancement request for #JC1 job

This is an enhancement request for the *#JC1 job. As currently designed, if any step within the job were to fail, the job continues executing the subsequent steps. As a result (during a DR situation), ALL steps would re-executed once the issue is ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

utility that allows us to convert from Timestamp to LRSN

It's a client need
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Avoid attempting to recover unrecoverable objects

We want to avoid submitting a job that attempts to recover a table (using advanced recover) if the table is unrecoverable, as this may lead to a situation where we have lost the table without being able to restore it. This should also be the case ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered