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Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 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/...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

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 5 years 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 ...
almost 2 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 6 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 5 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 a...
over 5 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 at...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered