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Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

Recovery Expert to generate native IBM Redirected recovery for LOB/XML objects

At the moment Recovery Expert does not generate a normal IBM Recovery based redirected recovery but generates it's own version of change accumulation based recovery solution. It will be nice to have the option to regenerate IBM recover which will ...
4 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Optimise Offload process to reduce CPU usage on DFDSS offload

Hello, We have opened a ticket : TS016938306 because we had several abend S878 in DB2 Recovery offload process trying to add more parellelism to reduce elaps and CPU time. Making more tests we have seen that DB2 Recovery Expert use more CPU doing ...
7 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Dynamically manage the size of DD DSNINFO for Recover expert SLB

DD DSNINFO is hardcoded with fixed allocation parameters, and they are not always sufficient. A manual override is needed. Given that the workload has been increasing over the years, the default values may no longer suffice, requiring more frequen...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

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...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Db2 Archive Tables Are Not Available for Selection in Recovery Expert

When using the GUI to display a list of tables under a schema used for Db2 Archive Transparency tables, none of the archive tables are shown. (In my case, only the LOB tables that are associated with the archive tables were displayed.) It seems co...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Explanation of Pre-selected Recovery Plans

It is unclear to the user of RE as to why certain recovery plans are pre-selected when generating a recovery plan for an object. There needs to be a clear explanation as to why certain recovery plans automatically pre-selected by RE when using opt...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Allow use of the REUSE keyword on basic/non-advanced recovery plans

When the DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS generates basic recovery plans for one or more tablespaces, it currently provides no provision in non-advanced recovery plans for the user to specify whether the REUSE keyword should be used in the generation/...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

consistent jcl member names via online and Batch facility

There are 2 options to generate JCL for a recovery plan for an application profile: online interface and via batch. The JCL naming convention for both the options are different. Online interface generated JCL members say 20 jobs are all generated ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered

Generate Recover instead of Rebuild for COPY YES Indexes when using Redirected Recovery for Indexes defined as COPY YES

Scenario: Redirected Recovery for TS and TB with COPY YES indexes Recovery Expert generates Rebuild index DSNUTILB cards even for indexes which are defined as COPY YES and have a valid copy that can be used in a Recover statement. IBM recover util...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS Delivered