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Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
6 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

Recovery Expert should have an option to exclude objects/partitions from the recovery which had no activity. Even though this would be caught by the Recover Utility, why build JCL that contains TS/Partitions which would not be recover. This causes...
6 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for OCSP or CRL

Our auditors require that every SSL connection uses OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) or CRL (Certificate Revocation List). As far as I know, this is not yet supported for Db2 Recovery Expert. I would ask to consider making this posssible.
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Writers on the Jobcard

At California Depart of Technology (CDT), we use a second party software to write out and store joblog sysout. This software is called SAR. When we were creating a Log Based Recovery in the URL GUI of Recovery Expert we ran into an ARYX093S error....
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Recovery Expert option to externalise the Recovery Health asset list (Image Copy and Log Dataset names) in Batch and Online

Recovery Expert has a validation and Recovery Health option. As an extension to this option it will really help the user base if there is an option provided to externalise the Image Copies and the LOG datasets, as a list, that will be used for the...
12 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add TOLASTFULLCOPY for RECOVER option

TOLASTFULLCOPY: Specifies that the RECOVER utility is to restore the object to the last full image copy that was taken. the DBAs are requesting that Rocket provide a TOCOPY recovery to the last full copy. They understand Rocket’s position that rec...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Load file which can be used in LOAD RESUME YES for REDO records

When generating REDO SQLs for a transaction recovery scenario an option to generate a load file (to be used in LOAD RESUME YES) containing the REDO record will be nice to have where there were a lot of records to apply say millions and the users u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

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 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration