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Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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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...
11 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Display Login screen with LPAR before show Db2 ssid

1./ Show the Login screen with User_id, Password and LPARs/sysplexes. - User provide User_Id/Password and specific LPAR_id. - (Please see the same concept of Query Monitor) if a login is successful (a user is authorized at this LPAR), show list of...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 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...
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 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...
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add support for HSM messages from SLB to Recover Expert

DB2 SLB utility introduced support for providing the associated HSM messages to the utility's SYSPRINT via zparm UTILS_HSM_MSGDS_HLQ. This high-level qualifier must also be registered in HSM via a SETSYS command. Data sets that use this high-le...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 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 ...
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Eliminate display limit when exploding application profiles

We recently had a need to use the Recovery Expert to recover all objects (tablespaces and indexes) in a database with a large number of objects in it. There are about 540 tables and just over 1000 indexes in the database. I created an application ...
12 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve cursor positioning on panel ARYGMSQT

I set up a redirected recover profile. I want to do object translations and am directed to panel ARYGMSQT, the Object Translation screen. The 'I'nsert line command is already in place when this screen is presented. I hit Enter to add the first tra...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Recovery status screen

We want to be able to follow up on the status of the recovery: Which jobs have run, which have completed, which have failed. This is essential when handling a major recovery.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Delivered

ARYSRV Task Tolerate w/o Abending when QUALSYS Scan is Run

Reference PMR 30417.082.000. The QUALSYS Team did a test and this caused the ARY started task to abend. Automations restarted the task and we were good. As the oncall person, it would be BEST if the task would not fail. We are running multiple ins...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered